The City Sentinel
June 15, 2021
By Darla Shelden
by Darla Shelden, City Sentinel Reporter SPIRO, OK Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center will host a series of special guided tours on the summer.
By Darla Shelden
By Darla Shelden, City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY – The Assistive Technology (AT) Unit in Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) recently hosted The Game Changers, a national award-winning.
Looter Tunnel 1938 at the Spiro site.(Permission Sam Nobel Museum of Natural History)Â
Temple Mound, Spiro, 1936, showing the ragged destruction by the looters.(Permission Oklahoma Historical Society)Â
Spiro Mounds Archeological Center signageMIKE CATHEY | Photo
Recent photo of Craigâs Mound at Spiro Mounds Archeological Center.MIKE CATHEY | PhotoÂ
Artist s conception of Spiro Mounds viewed from the west.(Permission Spiro Mounds Archeological Center)Â
Herb Roe
When they were unearthed in 1935, Oklahomaâs Spiro Mounds were dubbed by the Kansas City Star, âa King Tut tomb in the Arkansas Valley.â The mounds held thousands of richly-decorated, sophisticated artifacts from Native American Mississippian people, who thrived in the area before the arrival of European settlers.
Cherokee Nation s Saline Courthouse Museum in Rose
After years of ongoing work to restore, preserve and modernize the structure, the Cherokee Nation reopened the Saline Courthouse Museum last August. The last of nine district courthouses built in the 1800s by the Cherokee Nation, the Saline Courthouse features two galleries, a video presentation room, gift shop, public space and more.
One gallery showcases historical and cultural exhibits, while the other is dedicated to showcasing a different Cherokee artist every two months, with scheduled demonstrations available to the public.
The Saline Courthouse Museum is located at 55870 South 490 Road in Rose. It is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
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SPIRO â On March 19, the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center will host guided walks to share information about the spring equinox and how prehistoric people celebrated and dealt with the changes in the seasons.
There will be walks at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. led by archaeologist Dennis Peterson. Each walk will take about two hours and require a mile of easy walking. Peterson will tell about this prehistoric American Indian mound site, the types of mounds, why they were created, and why some of the mounds are lined up for the sunsets of the solstices and equinoxes. He also will share the history of the excavations, Native ceremonies and stories, tales of the unusual happenings associated with the mounds and answer questions.