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Ocmulgee National Monument's Earth Lodge highlights the mounds creation during Mississippian period over 1000 years ago. This mound was used as their congress in which they would make important decisions for their tribe. Image by Skhamse1 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA.

Seth Kannarr in ‘The Conversation:’ What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out

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Earth Lodge at Ocmulgee Mounds shows an example of earthworks that are over 1,000 years old. Skhamse1 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park. This is […]