Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Ho-Chunk At its heart this film

At its heart this film is about empowering people to overcome their current circumstances through eating as their ancestors did—nutritiously and locally

During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Ohiyesa became separated from his father—his mother had died soon after his birth-and fled from the reservation in Minnesota to Canada under the protection of his grandmother and uncle

Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood

It is written to be approachable

But owing to the extraordinary visibility of contemporary activism

Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Ho-Chunk At its heart this filmA necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices. Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. Alongside twentieth and twenty first century Native