Full Description
Blood Run was once a great mound city. About eighty remnants of its original four-hundred mounds still stand in testament to the 10,000 people who made their home here time ago and prove a terrific tribute of world history for their descendants living just down the road today. Yet, Blood Run is still in great danger of being forever destroyed by looters, developers, and the plow. This volume stands to persuade others to protect her and the sacred remains she guards in mounded tombs. The verse play of persona poems herein emanate its character of architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above.
Previous to European colonization and conquest efforts, trade flourished between Indigenous peoples of the Americas for perhaps as long as time earmarked humankind. Evidence of continual vast trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, including art, symbolic items, and practical tools, was well cached in the multitude of mound cities puckering vast portions of the continent, some still incredibly existing after decades of continual and intentional desecration, disfigurement, and dismantling by grave robbers and Manifest Destiny driven anti-eco agriculturalists. Though surely there were times of dilemma for Indigenous Americans, these long-developed relations ensured survival during eras of doubt. Thus the likelihood of peace prevailed and most nations enjoyed the security of blanket protection, aid, and assistance from related tribes; whether by blood or adoption. In so much, tribes that enjoyed helping one another sustain themselves engaged in trade relationships with numerous additional nations outside these pacts; building cities of ceremonial, burial, effigy, and civic mounds, wherein which they flourished.
Contents
Introduction by Margaret Noori
Author Foreword
I Dawning
Before Next Dawn
II Origin
River
Clan Sister
Memory
Horizon
The Mounds
Ceremonial Mounds
Burial Mound
Morning Star
Sun
Dog
Starwood
Corn
Redwing Blackbird
Sunflower
Moon
Blue Star
North Star
The Mounds
Snake Mound
Esoterica
Clan Sister
Deer
Beaver
Buffalo
Fox
Memory
Cupped Boulder
Pipestone Tablets
III Intrusions
The Tree at Eminija Mounds
Burial Mound
Ghosts
Skeletons
Jesuit
Clan Sister
Squatters
The Mounds
Tractor
Horizon
The Mounds
Skeletons
Looters
Burial Mound
Early Anthro
River
Looters
Clan Sister
Early Interpreter
The Mounds
Stone Snake Effigy
Memory
Horizon
Clan Sister
Skeletons
Horizon
The Mounds
IV Portend
The Tree at Eminija Mounds
Ghosts
Prairie Horizons
Skeletons
Clan Sister
Skeletons
The Mounds
Memory
Epilogue
Clan Sister
When the Animals Leave This Place
Acknowledgments
Dedications
