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Caddo Culture symposium slated at MRR
Staff Report
Published August 11, 2009
IDABEL, Okla. — The Museum of the Red River on Idabel, Okla., hosts The Caddo and the Mississippian Cultural Universe: A Symposium at 10 a.m. Saturday at M.J. “Jack” Bell Hall in the Mary H. Herron Community Conference Center in Idabel.
From the 11th to the 16th centuries, native peoples living in the Mississippi River drainage area shared several common cultural traits and practices. Many were still in use when Contact with Europeans occurred. Among these groups were the Caddoan peoples living in the lands around the Arkansas and Red rivers.
Ongoing research is providing more information about the Caddo and their relationship with other major Mississippian groups, particularly those centered around the major urban areas of Cahokia (Illinois), Spiro (Oklahoma), and Moundville (Alabama). New information will be presented at this informal symposium, where invited speakers will introduce their latest research findings, and then lead discussion among their colleagues.
Expected speakers include: Ann Early, State Archeologist of Arkansas; Jeff Girard, Northwest Louisiana State University;
Scott Hammerstedt, Oklahoma Archeological Survey; John Kelly, Cahokia Mounds State Park (Ill.); Tim Pertulla, Archaeology and Environmental Consultants (Austin); Dennis Peterson, Spiro Mounds Archeological Park; Amanda Regnier, Oklahoma Archeological Survey; George Sabo, Arkansas Archeological Survey; and, Mary Beth Trubitt, Arkansas Archeological Survey.
Moderator will be Museum board member Carolynn Neal, recently retired from the Oklahoma Archeological Survey.
For more information, log on to www.museumoftheredriver.org, call Paulette LaGasse at the Museum at 580-286-3616 or e-mail motrr(at)hotmail.com.
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