Decline of Mound Culture
Richard GreenTribal Historian Richard Green notes that around 1400-1500, the end of the prehistoric Mississippian era was signaled as the chiefdoms went into decline. There was warfare between chiefdoms and people began to migrate away from the mounds, dispersing before settling.
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