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  2. Indian burial ground trope - Wikipedia

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    The Indian burial ground trope is frequently used to explain supernatural events and hauntings in American popular culture. [1] The trope gained popularity in the 1980s, making multiple appearances in horror film and television after its debut in The Amityville Horror (1979) .

  3. Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United ...

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    Protest at Glen Cove sacred burial site. The Recognition of Native American sacred sites in the United States could be described as "specific, discrete, narrowly delineated location on Federal land that is identified by an Indian tribe, or Indian individual determined to be an appropriately authoritative representative of an Indian religion, as sacred by virtue of its established religious ...

  4. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12] The site was the southwesternmost ceremonial mound center of all the mound building cultures of North America. [12] Etowah Mound C: Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, Georgia: 1000-1550 CE

  5. Indian Mounds Regional Park (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

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    Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River.The oldest mounds were constructed about 2,500 years ago by local Indigenous people linked to the Archaic period, who may have been inspired by the burial style known as the Hopewell Tradition. [4]

  6. Mount Coffin - Wikipedia

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    "Coffin Mountain was so called because of the Indian burying ground which was observed there where the dead were placed, as was the custom, aloft in primitive coffins supported by stakes." [4] In November 1805, William Clark reported the hill as a "very remarkable Knob rising from the edge of the water". He said it was about 80 feet (20 m) high ...

  7. Miamisburg Mound - Wikipedia

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    Miamisburg Mound is a conical Native American Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio.At 65 feet (20 m) tall and 800 feet (240 m) in circumference, it is the largest burial mound in the Eastern United States.

  8. Category:Native American cemeteries - Wikipedia

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    This category is for historically Native American cemeteries and burial sites. ... Indian Burial Ground; Indian Mounds Regional Park (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

  9. Cherokee funeral rites - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee burial mound in Knoxville, Tennessee. Bodies that were buried outside were covered with rocks and dirt, and then later covered by other dead bodies, which would also be covered with rocks, dirt, and other bodies. These piles of bodies would eventually form large burial mounds. New burial mounds were started when a priest died. [2]