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Gain insight into the cultural heritage of the Cherokee and their historical, sacred landscapes during a lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Hi...

Serpent Mound is a monumental sculpture of the Great Serpent. In many indigenous American traditions, this being appears in the sky as the Milky Way.

Ancient American Indians in eastern North America built a variety of earthworks over many centuries and for many different purposes.  Ohio’s Adena culture, around 2,300 years ago, built conical burial mounds and small, circular earthen enclosures. The succeeding Hopewell culture built huge enclosures in a variety of shapes. And about 1,000 years ago, the Fort Ancient culture built at least two mounds in the shapes of animals – the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County and the so-call...