Historic Native American burials in ancient earthen mounds suggest a link between the pre-contact aboriginal past and the colonial period. This practice has been silenced in the ethnohistorical record, but the nature of this silence is not known. Some forms of resistance occurred beyond the gaze of Euro-American observers, and the colonizers certainly had their own reasons for not ''seeing" or recording a link between the mounds and contemporary native groups. This article explores the possible connections between this practice and the contemporaneous construction of the "myth of the moundbuilders," and the possibility that these "intrusive" burials represent a response to colonialism.
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