Myths_And_Moundbuilders

Myths And Moundbuilders Myths and Mound builders A comparison and contrast Emy Duncan Multicultural Issues The video of “Myths and Moundbuilders” was very similar to the article “Three Worlds Meet”. They both talked about the Indians who were Mound builders, and of how much they learned about digging up these Mounds. They were both extremely similar, and had much information to share about these builders of our past. Both items reviewed a stereotype from the English, and most of the explorers to the “new world”, towards the Indians. “Colonizing Europeans ….described the people they met in the Americas as “savage,” “heathen,” or “barbarian.” (Prettyman, 9) They felt that the Indians were uncivilized, especially compared to themselves. They felt that the mounds could not possibly have been built by these heathens due to the fact that they were so expansive and large. It took a good degree of thought and work that went into most of these enormous mounds. There was a myth that it was not the Indians who built the mounds, but a lost band of people, perhaps from the lost city of Atlantis, or from some other lost civilization. Both communications also found that there were valuables inside of these mounds. They found pottery, mounds, indians, mound, found, europeans, about, builders, tribe, much, felt, one, history, article, past, lost, indian, earth, both, been, video, through, thought, themselves, symbol, similar, should, savage, prettyman, people, movie, man, life, let, key, just