Mound Builders

Mound Builders

noun
the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism

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mound builder

noun

Origin:
1835–45
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