Poverty Point

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Poverty Point is a collection of earthwork mounds and ridges situated next to Bayou Maçon in Louisiana. It has features that make it unique among Native American sites, and there are still many questions surrounding its purpose and construction.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuffy Mist in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.7	I am Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	So we've mentioned in our recent episode on Maria Talchief
0:50.7	that I had been looking for some Native American history
0:53.7	to do for the podcast.
0:55.7	It's been a while since we had talked about any Native American history.
0:59.7	And in that looking around process, I stumbled across an article on Cahokia,
1:04.7	which is the Mississippi and City that was in the words of UNESCO,
1:08.7	the largest and earliest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico.
1:13.7	So naturally I got really excited.
1:15.7	But I found almost instantly two problems with doing an episode on Cahokia.
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