The Angel Mounds site near Evansville, Indiana was a permanent settlement of this pre-Columbian civilization from around AD 1000 to AD 1400, and archaeologists believe the same civilization's Oneota tribe lived in the area around Little Chute, Wisconsin before European exploration. Which mound-building indigenous civilization is being described?

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Mississippian culture. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished across the American Midwest and Southeast from around AD 800 to AD 1600. Angel Mounds near Evansville was one of its northernmost major settlements, and the related Oneota culture reached as far north as Wisconsin.