{"id":5868,"date":"2023-06-12T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=5868"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:28:40","slug":"mound-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=5868","title":{"rendered":"“Mound People”"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/em><\/strong>acon <\/em><\/strong>S<\/em><\/strong>crapins <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 \u201cMound People\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a9 By Barry S. Wolfe<\/span><\/p>\n

Bacon Scrapins<\/em><\/strong> are the little bits of meat left in the greasy fry pan. They\u2019re tasty, but the nutrition needs searching for. This tale is a<\/em> bacon scrapin<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan, my neighbour, and I stood with hands in our pockets watching as the truck dumped its load of sifted mulch onto his driveway. The truck lurched forward, stopped quickly, and its tailgate banged loudly to loosen any remaining soil. The driver lowered the truck bed and drove off down the street.<\/p>\n

There it stood \u2013 an oval-shaped mound of nutrient soil \u2013 waiting for someone to do something with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig job to move all that soil into your gardens,\u201d I suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood thing I\u2019ve got lots of time, a shovel and a wheelbarrow,\u201d Dan replied<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of work for one person,\u201d I concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou offering?\u201d Dan inquired.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust observing. You\u2019re just the latest in a long history of people with mounds in North America, even though this small one\u2019s only temporary.\u201d I added.<\/p>\n

Dan continued, \u201cYup. I\u2019ve read about mounds built by Natives in North America that are quite large, some over 100 feet in height, and intended to be permanent constructions of their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly European settlers thought they were naturally formed hills, and some were graded to conform to whatever they wanted to build overtop of them. 18th<\/sup> and 19th-century\u00a0\u2018scholars\u2019 refused to believe that North Americans had built these thousands of mounds throughout the continent because they considered the peoples \u2018primitive savages\u2019 who lacked the skill, intelligence or social organization to complete such a monumental task. Recent studies have proven that to be false. The structures were built as long ago as 5000 BCE and as recently as just before Europeans arrived on the scene.\u201d I recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, my mound here is going to disappear to add nutrients for our plants to grow. I\u2019ll eventually get it done by myself, with the organizing direction of my wife. Those Native mounds were built by a very large labour force under the direction of some central authorities.\u201d Dan admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cArchaeologists, digging up and studying mounds in various places have found a lot of evidence which shows, depending on which mound they were looking at, that these mounds were used as a raised dais for special members of their society to live on and for religious rituals, or as burial sites for their dead, and where tools and things they used have been discovered. They\u2019ve found ceramics, tools and evidence of materials that had to have come from long distances through trade.\u201d I mused.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a Serpent Mound in Ohio, that has its \u201cserpent head\u201d that aligns to the summer solstice, and the \u201ccoils\u201d align with the winter solstice sunrise and equinoxes. It\u2019s apparent that it was constructed for astronomical purposes. Just like the pyramid mounds built by the Aztecs and Mayans in Mexico. These were smart people with advanced civilizations in many ways!\u201d Dan observed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese Native civilizations, going back thousands of years, were able to organize knowledge and their citizens to build mounds that represented the best of their cultures. I think we\u2019re still doing that to this day, and not your dirt pile as an example.\u201d I considered.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what mounds are we building today that contain all the examples of how far our culture has advanced?\u201d Dan asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s easy,\u201d I concluded. \u201cThousands of garbage dumps!\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTE: Characters\u2019 names in the Bacon Scrapins tales are fictional. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>You may send appropriate email comments to the writer at thisiswilmot@gmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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