Re: Deliberate slander by Ohio Historical Society Proxy
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:23 pm
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What has happened is that as peoples were conquered and lost their history,
they made up new ones that are grandious in inverse proportion to the amount of their destruction.
Contra, Ms. Mann, a talented historian, and author of "Tales My Grandmother Told Me":
The Shawnee occupied the Ohio River Valley at the time of conquest.
The rings and rectangles were used by Shawnee and Cherokee ancestors to
teach the night sky and play ball games, respectively.
IMV, the extent of ancient Wyandot ancestral lands in Ohio are defined by a series
of Kickapoo paired ring and rectangle complexes on the headwaters of Indiana's White River.
The site at Worhtington was used for railroad construction fill,
while the site to the north of Indianapolis is not defined yet.
That said, I would fully trust Ms. Mann in seeing Vine DeLoria's last book, which was on the "giants" (Gandaste = "black pole") to press.
Most of the remains in Northwest Ohio, including those of the Wyandot, were mapped by an amateur archaeologist whose work is ignored by "professionals",
as though that will make the remains and artifacts he documented go away.
My guess is that Canadian archaeologists will have a field day (or more) with both his notes and collections.
While there are fine archaeologists at Cincinnati and elsewhere in Ohio, Dr. Lepper, Dr. Shields, AND their close associates are demonstrably incompetent.
While they are skillful political players, but they long ago lost sight of the science of archaeology.
Whatever their views on the history of the sites, pretty much everyone I've met with at a local level hopes that
the remains of Ohio's native ceremonial centers are transferred from the control of the private antiquarians of the Ohio Historical Society to
Ohio's Department of Natural Resources.
Based on my conversations with local political representatives and local archaeologists:
the remains are so massive that
it is no longer possible to manage them with the public-private partnership that was set up in the late 1800's.
By the way, the finest study now available of the Paint River area was done by a team from Germany.
Dr. Lepper's work at Serpent Mound was so bad that many are looking at whether or not his "Great Hopewell Road" really existed.
What has happened is that as peoples were conquered and lost their history,
they made up new ones that are grandious in inverse proportion to the amount of their destruction.
Contra, Ms. Mann, a talented historian, and author of "Tales My Grandmother Told Me":
The Shawnee occupied the Ohio River Valley at the time of conquest.
The rings and rectangles were used by Shawnee and Cherokee ancestors to
teach the night sky and play ball games, respectively.
IMV, the extent of ancient Wyandot ancestral lands in Ohio are defined by a series
of Kickapoo paired ring and rectangle complexes on the headwaters of Indiana's White River.
The site at Worhtington was used for railroad construction fill,
while the site to the north of Indianapolis is not defined yet.
That said, I would fully trust Ms. Mann in seeing Vine DeLoria's last book, which was on the "giants" (Gandaste = "black pole") to press.
Most of the remains in Northwest Ohio, including those of the Wyandot, were mapped by an amateur archaeologist whose work is ignored by "professionals",
as though that will make the remains and artifacts he documented go away.
My guess is that Canadian archaeologists will have a field day (or more) with both his notes and collections.
While there are fine archaeologists at Cincinnati and elsewhere in Ohio, Dr. Lepper, Dr. Shields, AND their close associates are demonstrably incompetent.
While they are skillful political players, but they long ago lost sight of the science of archaeology.
Whatever their views on the history of the sites, pretty much everyone I've met with at a local level hopes that
the remains of Ohio's native ceremonial centers are transferred from the control of the private antiquarians of the Ohio Historical Society to
Ohio's Department of Natural Resources.
Based on my conversations with local political representatives and local archaeologists:
the remains are so massive that
it is no longer possible to manage them with the public-private partnership that was set up in the late 1800's.
By the way, the finest study now available of the Paint River area was done by a team from Germany.
Dr. Lepper's work at Serpent Mound was so bad that many are looking at whether or not his "Great Hopewell Road" really existed.