Landscape bundling of ceremonial Earthworks: Incorporating ethnohistoric and contemporary Indigenous ontologies to revive Great Lakes archaeological legacy datasets

•Novel questions are asked about the emplacement of ceremonial monuments.•Indigenous ontologies are used as a theoretical framework.•Legacy archaeological data is revived through GIS.•Earthworks formed landscape-scale bundles of specific topographic landforms.•Late Precontact ceremonial earthworks differed significantly from random locations.