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  • Voices from the Stone

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    Voices from the Stone is a poem by Barney Bush, Poet and Shawnee Tribal Leader with the Vinyard Indian Settlement, Herod, Illinois. This video is part of a documentary on fracking in Southern Illinois for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. It was recorded on High Knob in Shawnee National Forest. Music and drumming by Mark Denzer.

  • Effigy Mounds National Monument

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    Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in North East Iowa along the banks of the Mississippi River. In the centuries before Columbus arrived from Europe, a mysterious native culture built thousands of dirt mounds across the Upper Midwestern Untied States. Often, these mounds took the shape of animals; birds, bears, etc. Effigy Mounds National Monument…