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CATHEY: Southeastern Oklahoma s forgotten city: The Spiros and their mounds

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.

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Caddo ceramics artist Jereldine Jeri Redcorn keeps making her mark

Caddo ceramics artist Jereldine Jeri Redcorn keeps making her mark
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Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark 30 years after she revived her tribe s pottery traditions

Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark 30 years after she revived her tribe s pottery traditions Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman © The Oklahoman File Caddo potter Jeri Redcorn is seen in her Norman home in 2009. Thirty years after she singlehandedly revived her tribe s lost pottery traditions, Caddo artist Jereldine Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark. The Oklahoma ceramics artist, 81, is creating a large-scale work for the interior of the long-awaited First Americans Museum, due to open Sept. 18 southeast of the Interstate-35/40 interchange near downtown Oklahoma City. Conceived in the 1990s as the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, the $175 million, 175,000-square-foot museum is designed to Smithsonian Institution standards to serve as a repository for the history, stories and traditions of the tribal nations headquartered in Oklahoma.

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This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas

This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas Heide Brandes © Photograph by Mostardi Photography, Alamy Stock Photo Hazy sun over field of wild grass and cloudy blue at Spiro Mounds Archeological Site in Oklahoma, USA. Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is among the greatest sources of Mississippian Native American artifacts ever discovered. Located on the Oklahoma and Arkansas border, the Spiro Mounds were part of a city complex populated from 800 to 1450 A.D. At its peak, it supported a population of some 10,000 people. The Mississippian political, trade, and religious confederation incorporated more than 60 different tribes and stretched from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the Great Lakes and from the Rockies to the Virgini

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This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas

This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas
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