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    Mounds is a town in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located just south of Tulsa; the town's population was 932 at the 2020 census. The post...
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    Spiro Mounds (34 LF 40) is an Indigenous archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma. The site was built by people from the Arkansas Valley...
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    peoples. Engraved shell gorget, Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma (Mississippian culture) Ceremonial stone mace, Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma (Mississippian culture) Engraved...
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    the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in...
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  • Virginia Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota Mounds, Illinois, United States Mounds, Oklahoma, United States The Mound, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking...
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    Expedition Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Gahagan Mounds Site Spiro Mounds Handie, Jericka. "Caddo Nation". University of Oklahoma. Meredith, Howard...
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  • is best known for his album Got to Get Your Own. Wilson was born in Mounds, Oklahoma, and his family moved to Pasadena when he was 5. He played in Los Angeles...
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     1325–1375 CE. Etowah has three main platform mounds and three lesser mounds. The Temple Mound, Mound A, is 63 feet (19 m) high, taller than a six-story...
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    "Liberty Mounds". The Liberty town name was taken from the nearby Liberty School District. Given the district's proximity to Mounds, Oklahoma on the west...
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    Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mounds)
    Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. Cahokia Mounds is a...
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    Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by pre-Columbian Mound Builder cultures, mostly in the first millennium...
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    Spiro Mounds. This is a Mississippian culture center that was active from about 900 to 1450 CE that was part of a culture in Eastern Oklahoma and Western...
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    features a stylized carving of a raccoon and was found at the Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma, remains unknown. The fur of raccoons is used for clothing, especially...
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    regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. It was composed of a series of urban settlements...
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    Tumulus (redirect from Burial mounds)
    Surviving mounds are still found in river valleys, especially along the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio Rivers, and as far west as Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma. Mounds...
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  • KTPX-TV (category 1997 establishments in Oklahoma)
    on East Skelly Drive in Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near Mounds, Oklahoma. The station first signed on the air on July 3, 1997, as KGLB-TV; it...
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    Civilization of the American Indian Series, No. 99. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0884-3. Thompson, J. Eric S. (1978). Maya Hieroglyphic...
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    in the eastern part of the state. Spiro Mounds, in what is now Spiro, Oklahoma, was a major Mississippian mound complex that flourished between AD 850...
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    Register of Historic Places portal Texas portal Battle Mound Site Spiro Mounds Caddo Nation of Oklahoma List of museums in East Texas List of Mississippian...
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    Possible representation of Hero Twins on an engraved shell gorget from Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma...
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    05048°W / 46.898560; -123.05048 Mima mounds /ˈmaɪmə/ are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified...
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  • attacked Pasuga, an Osage village at the foot of Claremore Mound (in present-day Rogers County, Oklahoma). The village was nearly empty; only women, children...
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    Boomer and Sooner (category Oklahoma Sooners)
    spirit squad. Mick Cottom, a freshman Ruf/Nek member from Liberty Mounds, Oklahoma, has the distinction of being the first person to pilot the Schooner...
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    List of Mississippian sites (category Mounds in the United States)
    the original on 2009-03-01. Retrieved 2007-10-13. "Indian Mounds of Mississippi : Boyd Mounds Site". NPS.GOV. Lankford, George E.; Reilly, F. Kent; Garber...
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    KXBL (category Radio stations in Oklahoma)
    Tulsa and shares a transmitter with television station KTPX-TV in Mounds, Oklahoma. KBXL broadcasts in the HD hybrid format. In the 1970s & 1980's, the...
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  • trike that was designed and produced by Ultimate Flight Designs of Mounds, Oklahoma. The aircraft was supplied fully assembled. The Jetwing was one of...
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    are stripped of all the equipment, although the AUTOVON junction in Mounds, Oklahoma was sold with all the old equipment in place. The telephone switches...
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    the center of Sapulpa, the county seat, and south 5 miles (8 km) to Mounds. Oklahoma State Highway 67 leads east from Kiefer 3 miles (5 km) to the U.S....
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    includes six large platform mounds (Mounds A through F), five smaller mounds (Mounds H through L), and at least one large plaza. Mound G, which is older than...
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    burial mound. The people built rectangular wooden buildings to house certain religious ceremonies on the top of the platform mounds. The mounds at Ocmulgee...
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