In lieu of an earlier post, I find most people really don't know anything at all about the giants of our past, and often assume it's all a big myth. Lincoln was so matter of fact about it, likely because it was a general known fact at that time. In 1881, Congress gave sole excavation rights of these mounds to the Smithsonian and gave them thousands of tax payer dollars to do so more than once. We all know what happens when they get involved in recovering history; anything consequential disappears. Some of their findings were made public in their Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for years 1873, 1875, and 1877. I'll post a link below to 1873 and you can change the years to view the rest. They found skulls measuring 36" in circumference, skeletons belonging to "gigantic savages," and so on. Publicly, The Smithsonian seems to mostly or only talk about the EASTERN mounds, but look for the stories from the Anasazi and also San Canyon Pueblo where footprints of 6 toed giants were found.
Would love to see what anyone knows about all this or give more info for those that want to know more. Of course this is just a glimpse of the story, definitely enough here to get started. This rabbit hole goes on and on once you start, but you will not be disappointed. It's more like, whole rabbit.
For those that want to go down the Giants/Nephilim road, there's also a very convincing story about giant remains being found on Jekyll island, along with a sacrificial altar built the same way the Canaanites built theirs. If it's true, the building that the infamous banksters' meeting happened in was built right on top of that altar. Search for Tim Bence on that story.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34977#page/426/mode/1up (Human skull found measured 36 inches in circumference) https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:6?rgn=div1;view=fulltext https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1881-pt3-v11/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1881-pt3-v11-12.pdf
I took it to be a challenge to the whole manifest destiny ideology that at the time was used to justify genocide of the natives
Definitely part of it. Along with the giants, they hid any evidence that contradicted the "isolation theory" of the Americas as well. If the public knew humans had been coming to the Americas for many centuries, and specifically what we call the USA, that would've definitely caused problems with that narrative.
Fun fact; the original 007, famous occultist, and advisor to the Queen of England John Dee is credited with the suggestion that England should attempt to erase any knowledge of previous claims to America. It was a part of a geopolitical strategy to lay greater claim and undermine the much older Spanish and French settlers.
This is only one minor aspect of the attempts to rewrite history but I always found it fascinating that some old wanna be warlock had so much influence.