| After reading the following pages on this Amazing Race of Mound Builders- may I suggest that you jump in even deeper by going to this link and read more on the Red and Blonde Haired Races . After reading this, your life and perception of the past will never be the same! Mary Sutherland CLICK HERE |
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| The Mound Builders - The Ancient Ones- The Giants - The Men of Old - The Mound Builders - Mound Builders Mounds of Wisconsin - Mound Builders of Wisconsin - Effigy Mounds - Conical Mounds- Ceremonial Mounds - |
| Rochester Wisconsin Mounds and The Old Indian Trail Mary Sutherland copyright 2005 |
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| Our historian/researcher 'Sophia' with Rochester's own Peter Laughran. Mr. Laughran has lived in Rochester for 58 years.In 2002 he worked to help get Main St. designated as a local historic district. This day, Brad Sutherland, Sophia and I, Mary Sutherland, are visiting Peter to record and document the 'old stories' in hopes of preserving them for generations to come. - Stories of the Mounds and the American Indians that made their homes in the mound area. In the above photo you see Sophia and Mr. Laughran going over maps. He is trying to show us where the old Indian trails were located that ran from Tichigan , Wisconsin, (known to the Indians as 'Healing Waters') , through this area of Burlington into Illinois. As he remembers, the old trail ran through the mound area. We will be providing you with photos taken of this trail and the mounds we discover as we research them. According to Mr. Laughran, the trail ran through a sector of Mr and Mrs. Edwin Ela's property. The photos you see on the left will provide you with our first trip to the Elas' property, located outside of Rochester, Wisconsin. Laughran remembers as a child the visits of the Potawamoni Indians to his grandparents home. They would bring fresh caught fish for trade with the family for some other goods. The local Indians, Potawatamis, called the mound builders the Yam-Ko-Desh meaning "the prairie people" To give you an idea of how many of moundbuilders populated this area, as the Indians migrated into the area, the legends tell of finding the Priaire People living there and they were ' "thicker than the leaves on a tree". It is believed that the Ottawas, Ojibwas, and Potawatamis formed an alliance to exterminate them. Even the native Indians claimed not to know much about who these people were. . Some recalled old legends that their ancestors had conquered and ousted an ancient civilization which had dug for copper and built mounds Most are very uneducated as to who these moundbuilders were and think of them as some primitive culture. This is very far from the real truth. Below is a photo found in a Michigan mound that shows that they were so advanced that they seem to have been performing 'brain surgery' well before the 'time of Christ'. . Click the photo for larger picture COPPER ARROW AND SPEAR HEADS have been found in the mounds area of Rochester. Mr. Laughran told us that he found a copper spear head when he was younger. We also know that others in the area have found copper arrow heads. Thus it does prove that metals were being used during this period - Archaeologists have found Michian copper in artifacts around the world. Scientists agree that they date back thousands of years before Christ. The Potawatomi Indians later came into this area. They started out as hunters and gatherers, eating wild game, fish, wild rice, red oak acorns, and maple syrup. After being pushed out of the hunting ground of Michigan and into Wisconsin, they learned farming from neighboring tribes. They grew corn, beans and squash. The women took care of the field while the men did the hunting. Their modes of travel was the birch bark canoes and later the horse as their tribes moved into different regions. They used the horses to hunt buffalo in the roaming grassland. |
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| THE ELA MOUNDS INVESTIGATING THE MOUNDS LOCATED ON THE FARM AND ORCHARD OF EDWIN AND WENDY ELA |
Photo on top shows us walking through a young grove of trees that are growing on the mounds now. The trees are dated to be approximately 100 years old and younger. The mounds would have been clear of trees during the time of the mound builders - But the trees would have grown later, from seedling that had blown into the the perimeter of the mounds. |
| It was determined that the trees growing here were Maple, White Poplar, Cherry, Hickory, White Oak - all wonderful sources in providing a food and herbal medicine supply. |
| Standing on at a higher point of the mound area, you can look down at the more marshy area that the most of the mounds are found next to. The marsh supplied water, abundant food source, navigation, material for baskets etc. |
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| The mound builders built their sacred sites where the ley lines cross. (Christian cross) . The Earth Energy Grid is the earth’s electromagnetic field that envelops our planet with a geometric pattern of magnetic lines of force. It is an invisible web of energy that crisscrosses the planet very similar to the acupuncture meridians of our own body. The major energy pathways of which the energy travels are commonly referred to as ‘ley lines’. Where these ley lines intersect, an energy eddy or vortex occurs. These are the ‘earth chakras’ or ‘power points’. The power points are similar to electrical switches or energy transducers spreading around the planet in the precise geometry of an ‘icosadecahedron’. Sacred sites of the Ancient Ones built their structures from pyramids to stone circles to mounds. These structures worked much like that of the old radio with a crystal transmitter or receiver..and they were all ‘tuned’ to particular electromagnetic frequencies. At the Ela site we believe we found a magic circle, at the base of the mound area, facing east, overlooking the swampy area. Upper Photo These circles are many times used to protect the site from energies outside, and it can also keep the energy inside. Lower Photo Even today such magic circles can be found around the altar of cathedrals and churches. For More Photos of the ELA MOUNDS Click Here. The research of the ELA Mounds is Ongoing and this site will be continuously updated with our discoveries and more photos. |
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| Linking the Native American Indian to the Hebrew Tribes Ojibwa (“Anishinabe”) (means “first people”). Note “ish” - Semitic for human being. Note that the Chippewa (Ojibwas) and Chippenham are probably variations of the same morpheme seen in “Kjobnhann” (Copenhagen), which is pronounced almost identically to “Chippenham” by the Danes. Cherokee have said they have been told they are the lost children of Israel. Early reports from North America include reference to Samoset, the Wampanoag chief who walked out of the woods to greet the Pilgrims in almost perfect English. There are many references to Gaelic (Welsh) and Hebrew speakers who claimed to be able to communicate with the North American natives in their mother tongue. Fox (“Sauk-Fox”) (“Meskwakihug” or “Meskwakie” - “Red earth people”) (These are Muskogean.) Muskogean is of the Sioux linguistic stock. |
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