Fascinating and insightful, thank you, Dr. Lepper! You raise an intriguing point: what knowledge of the past do we carry along with us, whether we are actively aware of it or not? What methods can we use to uncover the secrets of the past when written histories and shared memory do not serve us? As usual, collaborations based on mutual trust and respect will always serve as a valuable starting point.
I've been studying the mounds and doing ceremony in New England for years and the pieces that you string together here are amazing and much more accurate to me. Thank you very much
1929!! 1929?? About bloody time!! Well done Brad and well done Ben for sitting down to pow-wow. This is one of the points where I have difficulty with the archaeologists who go off to distant lands but never seem to ask the indigenous people their belief system or indeed their own history. Well done you Brad for having the guts to step out from the norm. I'm not surprised it took 3 years to gain their trust. History shows that just about every single tribe has been well and truly shafted at some point in the past and to an extent still are with ancestral tribal lands still inaccessible.
Could the mound in Newark have been one piece or the start of a much larger concept, like a jigsaw puzzle?
Fascinating and insightful, thank you, Dr. Lepper! You raise an intriguing point: what knowledge of the past do we carry along with us, whether we are actively aware of it or not? What methods can we use to uncover the secrets of the past when written histories and shared memory do not serve us? As usual, collaborations based on mutual trust and respect will always serve as a valuable starting point.
I've been studying the mounds and doing ceremony in New England for years and the pieces that you string together here are amazing and much more accurate to me. Thank you very much
Very interesting and enlightening presentation!
1929!! 1929?? About bloody time!! Well done Brad and well done Ben for sitting down to pow-wow. This is one of the points where I have difficulty with the archaeologists who go off to distant lands but never seem to ask the indigenous people their belief system or indeed their own history. Well done you Brad for having the guts to step out from the norm. I'm not surprised it took 3 years to gain their trust. History shows that just about every single tribe has been well and truly shafted at some point in the past and to an extent still are with ancestral tribal lands still inaccessible.