Library
Explore the FOBA Library
Start with places, timelines, evidence labels, source trails, Wiki entries, Tales, community notes, and careful Muur history framing.
Partner learning path
Use both sites without collapsing their meanings
TheFoundationsOf.us focuses on foundations, Muur history, ancestral memory, place-based research, and community learning. MoorofUs.org provides evidence-first Moor history, people, places, timelines, claims, and sources. Use both sites together to move between historical context and foundational research.
Story Map
Use the map to compare place hubs, rivers, routes, and research questions. A text list is included for readers who prefer not to use the map.
Map Places
- Montezuma, Georgia The Montezuma echo on the Flint
- Macon-Ocmulgee Ocmulgee Mounds learning hub
- Cartersville-Etowah Etowah Mounds learning hub
- Blakely-Kolomoki Kolomoki Mounds learning hub
- Tallahassee-Lake Jackson Lake Jackson Mounds learning hub
- Jacksonville-Timucuan Timucuan Preserve learning hub
- St. Augustine Area Coastal crossroads before and after contact
Industrial
- 1854 Montezuma incorporates as rail and river routes reshape movement
Transportation choices helped shape where people gathered, traded, and left records.
Treaty-Land Reorganization
- 1830s Removal policy era reshapes the Southeast
Federal and state policy, land cessions, and forced removals changed Native Nations and local communities in lasting ways.
- Late 1700s Paths, rivers, and trade networks link communities
Before paved roads, river crossings and paths supported trade, diplomacy, travel, and memory.
Contact-Colonial
- 1500s-1600s Contact era begins reshaping Florida and the Southeast
European arrival introduced mission systems, conflict, alliances, trade shifts, and disease disruption.
Mound Cities
- 900-1500 CE Mound cities flourish across the Southeast
Large towns, plazas, mound-building projects, and farming economies reveal organized civic and ceremonial landscapes.
Woodland
- 1000 BCE-900 CE Woodland-period earthworks and exchange networks grow
Earlier earthworks and exchange systems help learners avoid treating mound history as a single moment.
Paleoindian-Early Peoples
- 12,000+ years ago Long human presence in the region
People lived, traveled, hunted, gathered, and adapted to changing climates long before mound cities.
Deep Time
- About 50 million years ago Ancient seas leave traces in the landscape
Fossils and marine sediments remind learners that the land itself changed long before human history.
Start With A Collection
- Wiki for source-led explainers.
- Tales for clearly labeled storytelling.
- Expert Field Video Tours for carefully sourced landscape and method videos.
- Contribute to add context, sources, and corrections.
- Partner Learning Path to understand when to continue to MoorofUs.org.
Note: This is an educational project. It does not certify identity, tribe, or legal status.
Video Learning Path
Expert Field Video Tours
Use short, sourced field videos to help visitors see landscapes before asking them to interpret records. Videos should support the evidence path; they should not replace citations, claim labels, maps, or source trails.
Place Hubs
Place a field video after Quick facts and before the Story Map when the video explains the landscape, public site, mound, river, archive, or visitor route.
Library
Use videos as orientation shelves: field walk, archive walkthrough, map-reading lesson, and oral-history method. Each video needs a transcript or text alternative.
Research Method
Embed short method videos near claim review, source citation, map reading, and safe-sharing guidance.
Partner Path
Use MoorofUs.org links for wider Moor history context; keep TheFoundationsOf.us videos focused on foundations, Muur history framing, place, evidence, and community research.
Free-use source rules
- Prefer public-domain or open-access sources such as National Park Service media credited to NPS, Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse materials, and Smithsonian Open Access assets.
- For YouTube, use only videos where embedding is enabled and the source is official, educational, or explicitly licensed for reuse. Embedding is not the same as owning reuse rights.
- Every video card should show source, reuse note, transcript or text alternative, and a short explanation of what the video can and cannot support.
- Do not use video narration as proof of identity, ancestry, tribe, legal status, DNA conclusions, descent, or community membership.