... 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 ... 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 ...

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