Indian Mounds

These top two pictures are of the village of the Etowah Indians in Georgia.  When we got up Saturday morning I did some laundry so that Randy could have clean clothes for the road.  While I was doing laundry Randy and Brandon watched tv and then Brandon and I swam for a while.  After that we went to the Indian Mounds to show them to Brandon.  Actually we thought we were going to get to show him the bones of an indian however, they have put them away and no longer have them to be viewed.  These top two pictures are of the village that they have displayed at the museum there...

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This next picture is what the people were believed to be like.  The next two pictures are how they buried their dead.  They crossed their arms and legs and buried them sitting indian style.  Then there is the picture of what their homes looked like.Then they have a sign that shows that they actually had borrow pits in the south!  Even though we had never heard of them until we moved to Idaho.  They were used as a defensive mechanism.  Then last but not least the picture of an actual mound.  It was 60 -80 feet high and the chief and important families lived up there.  The chief could address his people from there and the warriors could defend them in times of war.  It is also where some of them are buried.

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