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Announcing the Upcoming Publication of My Mound Builder Book

12/18/2018

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​I am happy to announce that the University of Oklahoma Press had extended an offer to publish my book about the Mound Builders. The book is currently scheduled for a Spring 2020 release, pending final contract approval. The 163,000-word volume will be priced affordably (most likely under $30) and will be available online and at fine retailers nationwide.
​However, the editorial and marketing teams are still looking for the right title for my book. So, today I am going to paste the description of the book from the proposal below and ask for your help in selecting a title for the book. The editors suggested Stolen History as a possibility. If you have another, please comment below or send me a message at JasonColavito@outlook.com. Please note: The description is not the official book description, but simply a summary / teaser that I put together for the book proposal.
 
And don’t forget to contribute to my annual fundraiser going on this week!

About the Book

​What would you say if you found out that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of American society, all with deep and strange connections to one another, were responsible for faking the entire ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in service of patriotic ideals? Would you call it fake news? For nineteenth century Americans it was a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny.
 
It is a story that reads like a real-life version of the Da Vinci Code playing out at the highest levels of government, religion, and science—but with very real consequences.
The myth started out as two related questions: Where did the Native Americans come from? And, who built the tens of thousands of ancient earthen mounds blanketing America—some of which were nearly as large as the pyramids of Egypt?
 
At first, the answers seemed obvious. In 1783, Thomas Jefferson became the first person to conduct a scientific archaeological investigation. He used methods he developed himself to explore a Native American burial mound near his estate of Monticello in Virginia and reported his findings in Notes on the State of Virginia (1787). In an age when antiquarian excavation was little more than digging for treasure, his excavation anticipated by a full century the development of scientific archaeology. He found that the mounds were the work of Native Americans, who, in turn, were the descendants of people who migrated to America from Asia across the Bering Strait. Jefferson’s findings were added to the Encyclopedia Britannica as undisputed fact.
 
This should have settled the question. Instead, Jefferson’s report sparked claims and counterclaims from Jefferson’s friends and colleagues, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Franklin, politicians like DeWitt Clinton, Revolutionary War veterans, and religious leaders cast doubt on Jefferson’s findings, building up a myth of a lost white Mound Builder race, probably the Lost Tribes of Israel, based on little more than racism, Bible quotations, and wishful thinking. Most strange of all is the fact that the entire myth was created by only a handful of men numbered among early America’s political and intellectual elite, all of whom knew one another and corresponded with each other, and all of whom ought to have known better. In the end, it was the prestige of these early American leaders that enshrined fiction as fact.
 
This fanciful story became the governing myth of the new United States, providing a satisfying rejoinder to the thousands of years of history and tradition Americans had left behind in Europe. The Old World might have Greeks and Romans and Celts, but America had a Lost Race and the Lost Tribes. As America struggled to emerge from Britain’s shadow, creating a unique and independent history serviced an important and essential need. As a result, science lost out to myth, and Jefferson’s careful archaeology was eventually replaced with the groundless Lost Race theory even in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
 
The consequences were devastating. Lost Race believers included two U.S. presidents: William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson—who called the mounds the “monuments and fortresses of an unknown people” in the State of the Union Address. Jackson invoked the theory before Congress to justify the mass deportation of Native Americans from the eastern U.S.—the Trail of Tears—and the subsequent effort to eliminate Native Americans as distinct peoples. For the next 50 years, the American government engaged in endemic warfare and cultural genocide against Native peoples in order to seize Native lands and destroy their culture, all in the name of “restoring” the land to the “white” people who once lived there—the Lost Race. The result was the death of untold Native Americans and the devastation of hundreds of Native cultures in service of political expediency and an intellectual fraud.
 
Many of the actors in this drama were liars and frauds. The plagiarist St. John Crevecoeur faked testimony from Benjamin Franklin about a lost race that became a standard element of Franklin biographies for a century. The self-aggrandizing Caleb Atwater promoted the Lost Race theory after a life of business failure, using other people’s research without citation. Even distinguished scientists were not immune. C. S. Rafinesque faked ancient texts written by the Mound Builders to restore a reputation destroyed by Atwater after Rafinesque pointed out Atwater’s academic fraud. Archaeologist William Pidgeon falsified reports to invent a mystical white Mound Builder “code” embedded in the mounds. Farmhands and scholars alike faked buried tablets and parchments to supply “proof” of the Mound Builder race. Lie piled on lie. And because so many wanted to believe it, the lie became the truth.
 
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Mound Builder myth reached its apotheosis in the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Its founder, Joseph Smith, told the world that he had found golden tablets belonging to the Lost Tribes inside a giant mound near Palmyra, New York and had translated them to reveal a new testament of Christ, who had visited the Lost Tribes in primitive America. A Mound Builder theory that had begun as an intellectual fraud was canonized as America’s first indigenous faith. As the Mormons moved west, they tried to convert the Natives in order to help bring about the prophesied End of Days, when the Jews would turn to Christ. When that didn’t work, they went to war.
 
And yet the foundation of the Mormon Church began the slow process of undoing the myth of the Mound Builders. Questions over the authenticity of the Book of Mormon—for no one other than Mormons believed it was really an ancient text revealed by an angel—led to investigations into the origins of the Book, and the Mound Builders it depicted. Did Smith copy his book from a novel by Solomon Spalding, or adapt it from a bestselling religious tract by Ethan Smith? Was there really any proof of Lost Tribes buried in the mounds? Evidence began to slowly accumulate demonstrating that the imaginary Mound Builder culture was little more than a tissue of lies concocted in the years around 1800. Countless scholars had made their careers defending the Mound Builder myth and proposing a glorious American prehistory peopled by Hebrews, Phoenicians, Welsh, Greeks, and other non-Native peoples. Textbooks were rewritten to enshrine racist lies as “scientific” truths. It took time and effort to undo the lie—another sixty years—and even this effort was only partially successful.
 
The Mound Builder myth’s legacy governed America’s policies toward Native Americans during Manifest Destiny as well as Mormon relations with the Native peoples they displaced in Utah. The result was always the same: violence, ending in physical, spiritual, and cultural devastation for Native peoples. Native populations fell by 60% between 1800 and 1899 as a direct result of policies and practices inspired by imperialism, racism, and the Mound Builder myth.
 
This book is a narrative of this forgotten chapter in American history, from Jefferson’s pioneering work down to the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology in which Cyrus Thomas summarized his two decades of mound work to prove conclusively that America’s ancient monuments were the work of Native Americans. But by then, the damage had been done. The 113 years between Jefferson and Thomas demonstrate the consequences of lies accepted as convenient truths, with ramifications that echo today in arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” the role of science in public life, and who controls knowledge.
52 Comments
Ken
12/18/2018 09:20:59 am

A few suggestions

Dumb & Dumber
Mounds of Stupid
Yes Virginia, There Were Assholes before Donald Trump
Sorry Moses - They Didn't Make It This Far
Mormons Unite - Time to Come Up With A Different Story
Bursting White Men's Fantasy Bubble

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Ken
12/18/2018 09:22:23 am

BTW: Congrats Jason

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EAGLE FEATHER
12/18/2018 01:02:31 pm

Jason,

Out of all that you have placed on this blog site, this is the book I would want to buy.

It's called the Religion of Thor!

Not a fantasy, just a real world history of America. They were here, it has been proven, ancient writings and archaeology prove it... those who are jealous can't accept the facts.

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Dan
12/18/2018 08:09:37 pm

Did you mean for that to be sung to the tune of John Denver's "Country Road"?

If not, give it a try, it's hilarious.

If you did? That's some comic genius.

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PNO TECH
12/18/2018 09:47:09 am

(Self)Manifest(ed) Destiny, perhaps?
Regardless of the title, congratulations, Jason!

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Guilherme Teixeira
12/18/2018 10:27:47 am

Hi Jason,

First of all, congratulations.
I don't have a good name to suggest at the moment but I do have a small question:
What was Benjamin Franklin's take on the Jefferson report?

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Joe Scales
12/18/2018 10:54:48 am

Serious question. Didn't African American groups also claim their ancestors built the mounds?

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Scott Hamilton
12/18/2018 11:10:07 am

Sure, the same radical Afrocentrists who claimed the Olmecs were Africans sometimes try to claim the Mound Builders too (on the grounds that the Mound Builders were Olmecs, obviously), but that's a much later development than what I assume is the scope of Jason's book.

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Joe Scales
12/18/2018 12:40:10 pm

Judging by Jason's last paragraph, it would seem he's going to tie it all in with modern white supremacists. Seems though that whites aren't the only ones trying to lay claim to the land, and also aren't the only shade of color that denies Native Americans their due in this regard.

Scott Hamilton
12/18/2018 12:49:46 pm

I guess, in some super technical way? But it's not like any government was ever enforcing the Afrocentrist view with laws, nor was any Afrocentrist view ever the majority either popularly or intellectually. So why focus on that, over the obvious White Supremacy angle which is enshrined? Surely you don't want to fall into the intellectual and moral idiocy that is "Whataboutism"?

Joe Scales
12/18/2018 03:20:38 pm

Got it. Disregard facts and evidence that don't support your preconceived conclusions.

Welcome to Wolterville. Population: You

Doc Rock
12/18/2018 04:57:17 pm

Scott,

That's pretty much it. As it would relate to this discussion Afrocentrism wasn't really on the radar until the mid 20th century and pretty much peaked by the 90s. Linking Africans to earthen mounds would be the fringe within that fringe. Given the scope of the book, it might merit a couple paragraphs or a footnote if he is going into some depth about current fringe discourse about purported origins of mounds.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/21/2018 07:31:33 pm

Mr. Scales continues to be as-easily triggered as ever, I see, and continues to rely on the caustic rant as his primary tool -- like most of his comrades on the Right and the Fringe.

History perfectly justifies Mr. Colavito's focus even if there weren't also the sample fact of "his book, his topic" to contend with. I'm sure that Glen Beck will write a book on the dangers of the Afro-centric view of the Mounds sooner or later.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Doc Rock
12/23/2018 10:13:43 am

Mr. Nerd,

It's pretty much the same mindset that wants to start ranting about Irish Identured servants the second someone dares to bring up chattel slavery in the Western Hemisphere. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if we start hearing about it now since he isn't getting anywhere with the Afrocentrism play.

Scott Hamilton
12/18/2018 11:04:42 am

Congrats Jason!

Stolen History isn't bad. Along the same lines, Founding Myth, maybe styled to take advantage of Found and Mound using the same letters?

Or something with a comma. Real Mounds, Mythical History.

Or you could pretend your book is a fringe title, go with Who Built the Mounds?

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Dunior
12/18/2018 11:10:09 am

I think you have nailed it and am awaiting the publication of your book. It is interesting how this distortion of history is still going on today. We still see many people espousing theories that were blatantly made up in the nineteenth century as being true. I think there are few modern pundits that are chasing hidden history in America are actually researching Mormon mythology and they don't even know it. This is my last comment on this blog as I am required to go through a lengthy verification process just to post here.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/18/2018 05:13:25 pm

Okay, who wants what in the pool?

"Lie Upon Lie: Myths of the Mound Builders"

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Bezalel
12/18/2018 11:11:38 am

"Stolen history" is good.
Attention grabbing and short

Similar:

Winning History by Cultural Genocide in Early America

2nd
Jefferson's Unintended Consequences

3rd
How False History Erases Culture, an Early American example

Try to use words in title that serve as popular search terms, to increase exposure

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Jim
12/18/2018 11:36:02 am

Stolen history: the whitewashing of America.

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Doc Rock
12/18/2018 12:00:52 pm

Shopping it to a university press, what a brilliant idea LOL.

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Me
12/18/2018 03:35:44 pm

Why funny?

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Doc Rock
12/18/2018 07:27:43 pm

Nothing really. Several months back when he was having trouble finding an agent or publishing house interested in the project I told him he would be best served by shopping it to university presses. My suggestion didnt go over very well, at that time. But alls well that end well and it is a real feather in his cap in terms of credibility with academic types.

Me
12/19/2018 04:20:55 pm

Ah I see, my suggestion of shopping it to the University of Oklahoma press seems to have worked out lol.

Doc Rock
12/19/2018 06:55:28 pm

Yeah, Okie Press was a good call. Okie State Press or Nebraska would have been good options as well as Alabama given the tie ins to Native American studies and archaeology.

Enid McConnell
12/18/2018 12:07:24 pm

Fake History...

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Kal
12/18/2018 02:06:50 pm

"Stolen History" Revealing the Trugh in America" is already a modern book about progressives and politics. You might be confused for that one.

"Mystery of the Mounds"
"Revising the Mound Builders"
"On the Mountains of Men: The Legend of the Native American Mounds"
"The Founding of the Mound Myths"
"Of Mounds and the Native Men"

But might I suggest not comparing it to the fictional da Vinci Code book series. It should be marketed broader than that. Appeal to both historians and to fringe, not merely to fringe, and pop culture.

After all, your hook is ancient mystery culture, not fictional Line of Mary Magdeline culture.

So the alt whites believe the lost tribe was white? Uhm, no. The lost tribe would have been not white at all. They weren't white because middle eastern tribes of that time were tan or olive of complexion. Yes, Jesus was likely lightly tan, had black hair, and looked like a current middle easterner.

Although I am not a Mormon, I don't suggest making too much a point on their gold tablets story, as that isn't really part of the narrative, except Joseph Smith claimed to have found it in a mound. I was told it was in a grove, not on a mound, by a Mormon, but maybe they have different versions of the story. It was found a bit like the KRS was.

Does anyone scholarly, an archeologist specializing in Native American items, get interviewed on the mounds in your book?

There are some mounds out here too, (California) but we know the Ohlone built them, and that they were used as some kind of sacred sites. and they're not pyramid sized. But they are there.

The Smith tablets though never turned up in a museum anywhere. Odd that.

Colonial sites on top of these sites might be confused, but I don't know much on the stuff back east. Someone there probably does. How is your research going into that?

Try not to confuse mythology with history. The code stuff will not help, but only for sensationalsm. You want to sell to a broader audience.

"Mystery of the Mound Men"
"Retracted Histories of the Ancient Mounds"
"Mounds of the Gods"
"Sacred Hills of the Lost People"

Something that says...this is mysterious, interesting, and provocative, do debunk the false info on them out there, and weed through that false stuff is the mystery in the modern telling of the story.

"Separating the Myth from the Mound People"

Something like that.






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anonymouse
12/18/2018 02:08:57 pm

Of Mounds and Men

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Greg Cormack
12/18/2018 02:21:00 pm

Congrats Jason!

Stolen History is ok.
Native American Mound Builders, an Inconvenient Truth.
Maybe a possibility?.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/18/2018 03:17:35 pm

If Astronomy isn't part of the discussion, your work will be incomplete.

Mounds are not just piles of dirt. Some started out as mudbrick pyramids. Others were effigy mounds. Not just geometrical designs, animals, fish, and birds seen in the landscape, but, what the builders symbolically saw in the stars.

Some mounds were aligned to Solstices, Equinoxes and we're a small part of an overall larger system of navigation.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/18/2018 05:52:04 pm

Thank you Priceless Defender, you're really good at repeating that over and over.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/18/2018 06:48:58 pm

"Dirty History of Mound Builders"

"Ziggurat to Pile of Squat"

"Hijacked History"

"From KUFU to George" .😂

"Mounds of Multiple Uses"

"Star Maps, Observatories, Calendars, Tombs and Imitations"

"Newgrange to the New World"

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Leroy Morte
12/18/2018 08:13:21 pm

There were no mud brick pyramids or mounds in the eastern US. They were piled up basket loads of earth and clay. Often in sophisticated layers to stop them from slumping and to make them drain better, but not a one has ever been found to have "mud bricks". In some instances in excavations they have found actual intact basket loads of slightly different colored earth.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/21/2018 01:52:46 am

Leroy,

I am just going by what I have been told to my face, by two separate Archaeologists. I have also come across references in print suggesting the same. I am by no means suggesting ALL mounds had to be mudbrick. I am also aware of the basket loads. Dr. C said some of the dirt was still in the baskets. He claimed remnants were found. I don't recall him ever discussing the age of the basket fragments.

If the claim about George Washington is true, there is at least one in Virginia. Similar claims have been suggested to me about a couple of other Founding Fathers, and their property containing mudbrick pyramids. This remains speculation as I've never found a source. I have only come across brief mentions of George.

Would like to find out before, I pass.

Me
12/18/2018 03:37:06 pm

Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

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Stephen Hampton link
12/18/2018 05:46:54 pm

I'm glad to see this getting attention! I like "Stolen History" as a title. It's amazing how few Americans know this (fake) history. In my blog, I briefly summarize the rise and fall of the Mound Builder Myth and connect it to events in the ethnic cleansing of the 1800s. That here at https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/alt-history-part-1-the-mound-builder-myth-and-ethnic-cleansing/

In part 2, I share how modern white supremacists, Fox News, and the History Channel have sought to revive the myth. https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/alt-history-part-2-the-mound-builder-myth-reborn-nazis-and-solutreans/

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Peter B
12/18/2018 08:07:41 pm

Pity you couldn't get ancient aliens of an Adamskian nature in. Then you could have called it "Mounds of Venus".

(There is worse where this came from.)

Congratulations on the deal!

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Clint Knapp
12/18/2018 08:44:42 pm

Jason,
Congratulations on another successful pitch. Seems things are on an uptick for you in terms of publishing, and I'm happy for you.

I'm on the fence about the title. Stolen History isn't bad, but it doesn't quite have the catchiness of Knowing Fear or The Cult of Alien Gods. It is, however, a sight better than Jason and the Argonauts Through the Ages.

If it does go to press with the title Stolen History, I'd suggest leaving it at just that. No subtitle or awkward explanatory phrasing necessary.

I don't have any better suggestions, though of those offered here so far I do like Scott Hamilton's best: Founding Myth.

Looking forward to this one. Keep up the good work.

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Machala
12/18/2018 08:45:49 pm

Congratulations, Jason. Look forward to the book's premier. I am really glad you found a publisher, after all your hard work and what you've been through. Christmas came a bit early, eh.

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Kal
12/18/2018 09:13:53 pm

Congratulations!

"Stolen History" is so vague there already is a book titled that.

"Stolen History of the Native Mounds"?

"Myth or History, A Stolen Past of the Mound Builders"

In the western US there are some mud brick native structures, although the earth works here appear to have very little of that, but are more like man made hills.

"Secrets of the Mound People"
"Legend of the Mound People"

I also kind of like "Of Mounds and Men" Ha. But maybe that's too on the nose.

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larry parker
12/18/2018 10:48:07 pm

Mounds of Evidence

Also, congrats!

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Hu McCulloch
12/20/2018 06:54:44 pm

Congratulations on your forthcoming, Jason. I look forward to seeing it!

I hope you will include a discussion of Jefferson's interest in the East Fork Works, and how he interpreted them. Did he see them as representing a gridiron" per Drake (1815), a thunderbird" per Thomas's nemesis Stephen Peet (1902), or a menorah, per David Berry (1980)? If it's a thunderbird as argued in Bill Romain's new book on the mounds, do you know of any other Hopewellian thunderbirds?

BTW, I am now convinced that the map in the National Archives, which you discussed on 1/22/14, is in fact the 1803 map by Surveyor General William Lytle (1770-1831). This was demonstrated by Charles and James R. Hill, Ancient American #51 (May/June 2003). They point out that Israel Ludlow, who is referred to in the present tense in one of the captions, died in 1804, and that the map is discussed in correspondence between Lytle and Ohio Sen. John Brown, who was the go-between who presented it to Jefferson. I would further note that the captions use the 18th century "long s" (see Wiki), which became extinct by 1817. And the paper is watermarked 1796. Williamson's 1811 map is derivative of the Lytle map. In 1823, Maj. Roberdeau (USACOE) merely copied the map for David Baillie Warden, and was not the author of the map. I am to blame for this misunderstanding, as I mis-parsed the modificand of the adjective "signe" in a footnote in Warden's French article.

I hope you will also reconcile your characterization of Cyrus Thomas's 1894 Mound Survey as "conclusive" with the presence, on p. 394, of the Bat Creek inscription, which now even Mainfort and Kwas admit is Hebrew. If this is a hoax by the field agent who found it, as argued by M&K on the assumption that YHWH (Yahweh aka Jehovah) and YHWD (Yehud, or Judea in Aramaic) are the same word, does this discredit the entire Mound Survey and its conclusions, or just the substantial portion of it that was due to the agent in question?

Carry on!

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William Fitzgerald
12/21/2018 05:55:44 am

I hope you devote at least some if not a good portion of your book to the actual mound builders themselves. I have been very interested in their culture and history. They were arguably one of the most advanced and powerful people in what is now the United States. I don't know how they compare to the meso-American or Andean empires, but that is something of interest. I am especially curious how they used the incredible river system they were centered on and the agricultural potential of the Midwest (both some of the best in the word and a good reason why the U.S. is the world power). My understanding is that the mound builders essentially died off before much European interaction, although de Soto may have encountered them, which is maybe why they died off; and if so, would be a striking parallel to de Orellana's exploration of the Amazon River basin where he may have encountered another very advanced Indian culture that likely soon died off. It would have also been very interesting to see how the plains cultures, after they adopted the horse culture, interacted with an advanced and seemingly powerful but agricultural mound builders (perhaps a parallel to the Mongolian and other steppe peoples numerous and ruinous invasions of Eurasia); but, the mound builders and horse cultures of the plains never really coexisted. So, I digress.

Unfortunately your book looks more focused on white American efforts to appropriate the mound builders and their achievements towards their own purposes therefore denying a great culture its historical due (btw, I am uneasy about the concept of cultural appropriation, I think it is more often used too broadly, but in this case it is entirely appropriate). So, I hope you can devote at least a good portion of your book to the people you are ostensibly writing about. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have much interest as debunked old conspiracy theories just doesn't do it for me. While of course I completely understanding the need and importance of debunking conspiracies and other falsehoods, I therefore can understand the impetus if this is mainly what your book will be about (it's just isn't my thing). Either way, wish you best of luck.

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An Anonymous Nerd
12/21/2018 07:41:52 pm

[Unfortunately your book looks more focused on white American efforts to appropriate the mound builders and their achievements towards their own purposes therefore denying a great culture its historical due (btw, I am uneasy about the concept of cultural appropriation, I think it is more often used too broadly, but in this case it is entirely appropriate).]

He indeed has described it as focused on building the myth of the Mound Builders and its historical importance to the United States. This is an entirely appropriate focus. While I'd love to see more information about the various cultures that built the mounds (your post seems to imply a singular which I doubt is how it really was), that does't sound like this book.

And further I have the impression that extensive information about those cultures is un-recoverable due to, well, the events that Mr. Colavito will focus on. (In large part.)

And if it is recover-able it hasn't been recovered yet, due to, well, the events that Mr. Colavito will focus on. (In large part.)

If we do know more about those cultures some day it'll in no small part due to the exposure of the myths as being just that, by this book and others' efforts.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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An Anonymous Nerd
12/21/2018 07:35:53 pm

"Stolen History" is actually pretty damn good. Someone will need to think of a snappy subtitle to go with it. What's good about it is that it does not emphasize the mounds or the ancient past.

I think the primary audience for this book will not be folks interested in the mounds but the U.S. history folks. It'll fit in with other journalistic type books about historical events that Historians aren't as interested in, or aren't as interested in anymore.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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EAGLE FEATHER
12/22/2018 02:44:00 pm

I'm not one to pontificate, but...

1. Egyptian pyramids were made of large blocks of stone lifted to create the incredibly hulk sized Greeks... it led to the downfall of their society because woman were born just as large. Greeks replaced by Jewish people. Same cloth, different size.

2. Mesoamerican pyramids were small blocks of stone to keep people busy, so the people would lose weight as opposed to gaining size and strength... it led to a resurgence of their society because large people returned to Europe smaller. Start of Christian people. Old cloth, new size.

3. Every culture/indian society in the America's were related by ways of the master plan. Separated, they bred a certain facet into their society. Combined on the Midgaard Serpent (Mississippi River), they returned the people known as Thor to Europe. A perfect human being, aka a shrunken Viking.

4. Because the end result resulted in a person with white skin, they were referred to by others as white supremacists. Thus, a revolt against white people. Thus, the mounds. Either the white people were killed off so only tanned Indians remained, or the forces of Europe returned to kull the rebellions.

5. Dating can be crucial in determining this for the unwitting general population. The ruling class knows the answer. Blogs and books are written as insight to the uneducated and smoke screen for the mentally handicapped.

(I'm curious to read Jason's book to see if it can answer that question?)

6. Black supremacy which is rarely talked about, is a second tier Roman concept. Any shrunken 'white' person who wished to rule needed the assistance of the thinner stronger black populations. Thus, those 'white people' who contained the mitochondrial DNA of black people, united with the black people to overthrow the more advanced race of white Greek people.

7. The mob now rules. What was once referred to as royalty is now contained in the various forms of republican families which dictate the outcome of what people look like and act like.

8. But remember... I'm not one to pontificate.

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EAGLE FEATHER
12/22/2018 02:46:14 pm

Oh yeah and...

It's stolen history. The facts and history are all being fabricated to erase the history of those people who founded this land. Because it was made for you and you.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/22/2018 08:56:41 pm

[I'm not one to pontificate. ]

You are, it would seem, one to make up outlandish stories, for which no evidence exists, and assert them in a manner that's hard to tell if it's serious or not.

I'm hoping not because nothing you said is supported by, well, anything. It'd be like if I asserted that the pyramids were built to honor Sauron -- because what is the Eye of Horus if not an imperfect vision of the Eye of Sauron.

-An Anonymous Nerd

EAGLE FEATHER
12/23/2018 01:53:16 am

(confused?)

My stories as you put them, are the most intricately documented actions in world history. The stories as you put them, are also supported by the only archaeological evidence that could have survived over the millenniums. Biology has also confirmed every notion put forth.

Only in a dream state could you realistically disagree.

Hu McCulloch
12/22/2018 01:46:04 pm

I think that "The Moundbuilder Myth" or "The Myth of the Moundbuilders" is more what you have in mind that "The Moundbuilders," since you are more interested in the 19th c speculation about who built the mounds than the mounds themselves. This is a legitimate topic, but a different one than that covered say by Bill Romain's new book, "An Archaeology of the Sacred."

It sounds like you are covering a lot of the same ground as Robert Silverberg's great 1968 "The Mound Builders: The Archaeology of a Myth," but with updates and more on the political/military consequences of the myth. Unfortunately, Silverberg just missed the 1970 identification of the Mound Survey's Bat Creek stone as Hebrew. It would have been fascinating to see what he had to say about that. (He's still alive and publishing furiously BTW.)

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Jim Morrison
12/22/2018 06:22:04 pm

Who built the Mounds? What THEY don't want you to know!

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Doug H link
8/3/2019 12:30:47 am

"Manufactured Destiny: Mound Builder Misinformation"

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Father Brown
8/20/2019 11:57:29 am

Jason, your book sounds fascinating, but can you really describe the myth of the mound builders as a 'forgotten chapter in American history'? Terry Barnhart's excellent American Antiquities, which covers much of the same material, was published in 2015, and Barbara Alice Mann’s spiky Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds, which also mentions the political use of the myth by Jackson, Harrison, et al., was published in 2003. The various theories regarding the Ohioan, Mississippian, and other mounds, inclusive of their racist and white supremacist presuppositions, are a well aired theme in the history of North American archaeology, and, as such, are no more forgotten than, say, anti-Catholic legislation in early nineteenth-century New York, Louis Agassiz’s polygenism, or Newton’s alchemical interests. Perhaps the mounds, and the nineteenth-century historiographical traditions that were built up around them, are not part of the general American historical consciousness, but the same is true, I think, of much other, academically uncontroversial, basic social, political, cultural, and intellectual history.

In any case, best of luck. I very much anticipate ordering a copy when it’s out. It's a great topic, and I do not doubt that it has many hitherto underexplored nooks and crannies.

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          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
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        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
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        • The Orphic Argonautica
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        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
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          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
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        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
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        • Lost Cities >
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        • The Many Wives of Jesus
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      • Giants in the Earth >
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
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        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
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        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
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      • Thaumaturgia
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      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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