Requiem for a Nun, 80 (Event)

Page Number: 
80
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1
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The rich deep black alluvial soil which would grow
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81
Era: 
Pre-Removal (-1830)
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Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Monday, January 3, 0000 to Sunday, December 31, 1200
Summary: 

According to the novel's account, the landscape of Mississippi was aboriginally inhabited by animals like "bear and deer," and the "unalien men" who gave the animals their first names: the "nameless though recorded predecessors who built the mounds" that remain on the landscape (81). The narrative refers to these people as "the obsolete and the dispossessed" (81); archeologists generically refer to them as 'the mound builders." The novel gives no dates for this prehistoric era, but archeologists believe these 'mound builders' may have inhabited the Mississippi River valley for as much as 5000 years.

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