One of the smaller mounds on top of Emerald Mound on the Natchez Trace near Natchez, Mississippi. Photo by author. Colonial Spanish From Childhood Wonder to Ancient Lives — The Mounds That Stay With You Traveling across the South, you see occasional road signs for Native American Mounds. We try to stop and visit each of them when we come across them. Mounds have been important to me since I was a child. We visited the LSU Campus many times since my father went to LSU, and my parents took us to the football games as soon as we were old enough to walk the long distance from the parking lot to the stadium. Two things on campus were always our favorites: Mike the Tiger and the mounds! At first, we
