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When they were unearthed in 1935, Oklahoma’s Spiro Mounds were dubbed “a King Tut tomb in the Arkansas Valley” by the ”Kansas City Star.” The mounds held thousands of richly decorated, sophisticated artifacts from Native American Mississippian people, who thrived in the area before the arrival of European settlers.

This little-known Native American society was once as powerful as the Aztecs and Incas

The Spiros were once “the single most powerful group ever to exist” in North America. This groundbreaking new exhibit in Oklahoma shares their story.

BYHEIDE BRANDES PUBLISHED MARCH 9, 2021

Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is among the greatest sources of Mississippian Native American artifacts ever discovered.

Located on the Oklahoma and Arkansas border, the Spiro Mounds were part of a city complex populated from 800 to 1450 A.D. At its peak, it supported a population of some 10,000 people. The Mississippian political, trade, and religious confederation incorporated more than 60 different tribes and stretched from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the Great Lakes and from the Rockies to the Virginia coast.

The Spiro population, along with other Mississippian groups across eastern North America, was once equal to the Aztecs and Incas, yet despite its size and sophisticated trade society, its legacy is not well understood.

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A groundbreaking exhibition aims to change this. Unveiled in February and running through May 9, "Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World," at Oklahoma City’s National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, is the largest presentation