The Wickliffe Mounds: The Deep Connection I Felt

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LaDonna Brown reflects on her experience at Wickliffe Mounds and the close connection she immediately felt with the landscape there, as well as with the animal icons. The wooded setting, waterfalls and pathways in her ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi fit with the ancient stories.

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