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The mound today from Wiki Commons: Ditch Fisher. The mound is 25 feet tall and was enclosed by a C-shaped earthen wall some 10 feet high. It was made around AD 300 and the Choctaw (who own the site) say a nearby hill with an opening, called the

Nanih Waiya Mound

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The mound today from Wiki Commons: Ditch Fisher. The mound is 25 feet tall and was enclosed by a C-shaped earthen wall some 10 feet high. It was made around AD 300 and the Choctaw (who own the site) say a nearby hill with an opening, called the "Cave," was their place of emergence.

Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).

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