Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People by Michael Bastine

Author:Michael Bastine [Bastine, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Folklore & Mythology, Human Geography, Specific Demographics, Native American Studies, Religion & Spirituality, New Age & Spirituality, Shamanism, Occult & Paranormal, Supernatural, Other Religions; Practices & Sacred Texts, Tribal & Ethnic, Native American, Special Groups, Earth-Based Religions, Occult, Native American Religions & Spirituality, Folklore/Native American
ISBN: 1591431271
Amazon: B005IQ697O
Publisher: Bear & Company
Published: 2011-08-15T14:00:00+00:00

The new work area turned out to be a prehistoric power point: the site of at least one sacred earthwork, a village or two, the junction of ancient trails, and a multicultural burial ground dating back at least four thousand years. Trains, tracks, digging, and paving would destroy it all. This was an unwelcome new twist.

We know mound-building societies like the Hopewell and Adena only from burials, artifacts, and the massive earthworks that mystified the Senecas when they came to this valley. The Viper Mound, a Genesee riverside earthwork and possibly a Hopewellian style snake effigy, had already been paved over during the mid-1970s work on I-390. It is hard to identify the living ancestors of the Hopewell. Who rules on their remains? NAGPRA, we have a problem. The suits, of course, just wanted work to go on. Enter, according to the story, a certain prominent Seneca.

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