Early European interacted with Native American tribes that created large towns near rivers that featured central plazas, homes on top of large mounds and defense structures (palisades, guard towers and moats). Thestructures were dedicated to religious and social activity, some were even used as burial mounds. Which Native American culture is being described here? * 1 point
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Leadership and social status
For those groups that engaged in centralized forms of organization, the role of chief, or tribelet leader, was generally an inherited position. In some groups, such as the Pomo, women were eligible for chiefly office. Typically the chief was an economic administrator whose work ranged from general admonitions to specific directions for particular tasks, such as indicating where food was available and how many people it would require to collect it. Such leaders redistributed the economic resources of the community and, through donations from its members, maintained resources from which emergency needs could be met. Within their communities, chiefs were the major decision makers and the final authority, although they typically worked with the aid of a council of elders, heads of extended families, ritualists, assistant chiefs, and shamans. In some areas the chief functioned as a priest, maintaining the ceremonial house and ritual objects. The chief was generally a conspicuous person, being wealthier than the average individual, more elaborately dressed, and often displaying symbols of office. Chiefs’ families formed a superstratum of the community elites, especially among those tribelets that organized themselves through lineages.
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The Mississippian culture
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- The Mississippian culture was a prominent Indian civilization which lasted from around 800-1600, and which differed regionally,
- It was made up of a variety of urban and suburb villages, linked by loose networks of trade. Cahokia, which is considered a major religious center, was the largest city.
- Typical towns and villages (settlements) with defensive palisades enclosing in residential areas & platform mounds were situated on riverine flood plains