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do they serve to indicate a line of migration from the southward? — 

 questions which may be solved but which are not to be answered now. 



MOUNDS ERECTED BY THE MUSKHOGEAN TRIBES 



As mentioned at the beginning of this sketch, Muskhogean tribes 

 were found occupying large and rather permanent villages by the 

 Spaniards when they traversed the southern pinelands from the 

 Atlantic to beyond the Mississippi during the first half of the six- 



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Figure 3. — Fortified site in Franklin County, Tenn. This plan was made during the 

 early part of the last century and shows the use of stone walls, mounds, and 

 ditches to supplement the protection afforded by the high cliffs. Original sketch 

 now in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 



teenth century. Villages were then discovered near where they were 

 destined to remain for three centuries as some tribes continued to 

 dominate the region for that long period, and it is not possible to 

 surmise how many generations had lived and died there before the 

 coming of the invaders. Being able thus to trace and identify the 

 occupants of the country through several centuries, it is permissible to 

 attribute to the same people the great majority of the ancient mounds 



