Lost Worlds: Georgia| Part 6: Ocmulgee Indian Mounds

[CrazyNative4]

this is cool

[kenyanamerican]

Just visited this national monument last week and it truely is amazing. I even had the pleasure of viewing the only spiral mound in N. America, which is only acessible twice a year via a 4 mi hike!

[ANTHROGUY2004]

Thanks for the response! Still, I think it's a lot to hang on a single creation myth, when so much about the culture and archaeology of the Southeastern Indians either does not support a migration from Mexico or outright contradicts it. For example, if the Creek had migrated from Mexico (around AD 1000, as you seem to suggest), you would expect them to speak a Uto-Aztecan or some related language, but they don't. Language changes VERY slowly and so it can be used to verify such migrations.

[LostWorldsTV]

The Muskogean language is part of the Hokan family. This language family has been shown to have its origins in Mexico and Central America. At least two languages in this family (Chontal and Yuman) are still spoken in western Mexico today. This is why I think the Muskogeans have an origin in western Mexico.

I don't think every Mississippian group came from Mexico. But the four tribes mentioned in the creek migration legend do seem to have a Mexican origin.

[Papillonmuscogee]

@LostWorldsTV Hmm, well this is very interesting then. I shall correct you, the Indian Removal was no legend. Georgia/Alabama/MS was prime land, and the whites wanted it. How do you account for the Bering Strait theory?

[ANTHROGUY2004]

Generally a very good video, but Mississippian archaeologists LONG ago abandoned the idea (if, indeed, they ever held it) that Mississippians were migrants from Mexico. If anything, the evidence suggests that they were migrating down from the Midwest and American Bottom region. Mississippian culture was a development indigenous to the Southeast.

[LostWorldsTV]

The Creek Migration Legend, recorded in the early 1700s, describes their original homeland as having volcanoes and earthquakes. There are no volcanoes in the Midwest or American Bottoms region. Nor can the migration legend be easily discounted as fanciful mythology since many things referenced in the legend have since been verified by the archaeological record at Ocmulgee Mounds. Read more about these at my website in the Ocmulgee Mounds section of the Ancient Architects of Georgia exhibit.

[13chardage]

We learned about this in georgia studies but only for like a week- i just think its weird that these great civilizations just diappeared from the whole site. We may never know exactly why they left these sites

[rdc1622]

...and Serpent Mound in Ohio, Cahokia in Illinois.

It's awful strange how the American educational system failed to mention these sites in the public school system. They are too big to ignore and pretend ignorance of.

[XNakisisaX]

tell the truth cop, they weren't destroyed by the cow and the plough, they were destroyed by the pale barbarians from the east...and how. and they didn't predate africa's pyramids. who do you think taught them to build it? good video.

[Enseni]

Right, and Indians couldn't do it themselves so someone HAD to have taught them. Typical Afro-centrist.

[XNakisisaX]

very good. you think building pyramids was a universal thing like hunting? yes i am typical, thank you so much.

[lukingatyou2]

Typically right too. These natives indigenous are still there thinking they are slaves instead of the real builders. Macon is 75% black and indigenous for a reason! They are the real Mexicans - Olmecs who migrated here. Mooriish. or Black indians built these structures. Most of us were already here and around the world2. We are the real and 1st Natives here in NOrth and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Polynesia, Australia etc. Truly a great period robbed of our history not no more.

[aundrae4]

most american never hear of this how come we don't learn this in public schools i lived in atlanta and dallas back in forth not even in georgia public schools they they tell you

[LostWorldsTV]

This is EXACTLY why I produced this video. I grew up in Georgia, went to Georgia public schools and three colleges in Georgia. Not once did I ever learn about these cultures. In fact, it was only after visiting the pyramids in Mexico that I stumbled upon info about America's pyramids while doing some research.

I heavily promoted my DVD to GA educators but only a couple colleges, public libraries and a few public schools in Georgia have purchased it. So I guess the ignorance will continue!

[Papillonmuscogee]

@LostWorldsTV Have you taken into account, Indian Territory, and the state of Oklahoma, in any of your research? As this is where the forced migration, sent many? In Oklahoma history, this is taught in schools. The 5 tribes, came from the east, ...to Oklahoma.

[otirudam]

@aundrae4 the christian european empire has always been clever to impose itself as the climax of universal humanity. Practically everybody that lives under the western-christian culture demeans local cultures and has been taught and convinced that all that is good comes from Europe. I live in Mexico, and all mexican schooling is geared and encouraged to look upon western-christian-european civilization as the best there is, so local knowledge in discouraged as weak and underdeveloped

[webovisionca]

Agreed. 'freemasons' founded the USA by declaring Independence from the European Monarchies. If you look on a dollar bill it is spelled out pretty clear.

I also agree that the guy in the security guard uniform is the wrong guy to interview for a documentary on this!

I will look more into what you have said. It has interested me. Thank you.

[thanrose]

Please, child! When has a security guard expounded so much on that which he guards? He's an educated US National Park Service Ranger, one with experience and knowledge to impart.

[terminix23]

4 directions bless

[bacardibreezer7]

Can I just say how cool it is that along with all the crap on YouTube, there's also a lot of educational stuff too.

[foolmoon70]

I grew up 20 miles from the mounds.

Loved going there when I was a kid.

I got to go back in 2001, still great to walk inside some of them.

[nickflit]

Interesting.

[tsalaghi]

Cool. Looks like a council house. Circles upon circles.

[johnwindsurridge]

educational. I'm pleased these sacred sites are preserved.