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Life Along the River

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LIFE
(image) Detail from a painting shows Mississippian homes surrounding a large ceremonial mound.
 

Houses of thatch and mud plaster spread far among fields of corn, beans, and squash–the “Three Sisters” that fed a population explosion among the Mississippians. Illustration by Michael Hampshire. Use prohibited without permission.

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