Mississippi Period Videos
LaDonna talks about mounds in the Woodland and Mississippian era located in the Chickasaw homelands. These include Pinson, Pharr, Owl Creek and Bynum mounds. Emerald Mounds is a major Mississippian mound and is the single largest mound and the second largest mound site in North America.
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Emerald Mound and Others in Our Homelands
LaDonna BrownLaDonna surveys other mounds from the Woodland and Mississippian period.
Mound Sites: Evidence of Well-Established Trade
Experience Chickasaw History and CultureLaDonna Brown cites features shared by mound sites that demonstrate how trade had long been an important aspect of Southeastern Indians' lives.
Spiro Mounds: Trade Center for the Continent
LaDonna BrownLaDonna Brown notes that Spiro Mounds, located in eastern Oklahoma, is the trade center between the Southeast and the Southwest.
The Largest Mound Site: Cahokia
LaDonna Brown, Tribal Anthropologist, Department of History & Culture, Chickasaw NationLaDonna Brown describes the Cahokia Mound site.
My First Mound Experience: Wickliffe Mounds, Part 1
Experience Chickasaw History and CultureLaDonna Brown recalls her first visit to a mound site and the powerful experience it proved to be.
Textiles of the Mound Builders
Margaret Roach WheelerMargaret Roach Wheeler describes her Smithsonian fellowship research on the textiles of the mound builders.
The Southeast Clan System Defined Societal Structure
LaDonna Brown, Tribal Anthropologist, Department of History & Culture, Chickasaw NationLaDonna elaborates on the societal structure clans provided, such as who could be leaders, doctors or warriors.
Clan Systems in a Matrilineal Society
LaDonna Brown, Tribal Anthropologist, Department of History & Culture, Chickasaw NationLaDonna Brown explains how the clan system provided a societal structure for the southeastern tribes.
Our Spiritual Animal Guides
LaDonna BrownLaDonna Brown describes the Chickasaws' spiritual beliefs that have existed since prehistoric times.
The Chickasaws: Clan System Enabled the "Indian Grapevine"
Richard Green, Author & Former Chickasaw Nation HistorianThe clan system enabled the Chickasaws to trade with and be welcomed by other tribal members of the same clan.
Descending from Clans: A Matrilineal Society
Joshua HinsonJoshua Hinson explains that traditionally, Chickasaw heritage descended solely from the female.
Muskogean Tribes: Clan Systems Organized Life
Joshua Hinson, Director, Language Department, Division of Culture & Humanities, Chickasaw NationClan structure and the smaller house groups were organizing forces from the Mississippian period until the middle 1800s.
The Ancient Language of Clans
Joshua HinsonJoshua Hinson describes how his family learned the history of its clan, the Panther Clan.
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Bill Anoatubby, Governor
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