The Tall Osage Indians Were the Ohio Valley Hopewell Mound Builders

Many large skeletons have been found in Hopewell Indian mounds. With the Osage history of once living in the Ohio Valley and being the tallest of all the Native American tribes, it is reasonable to assume the Osage were the Hopewell mound builders. After the Hopewell Sioux were expelled from Ohio they travelled west of the Mississippi. Here is an article and Photo of a giant Dakota Sioux Hopewell skeleton www.nephilimgiants.net : Eight Foot Neanderthal-Hybrid Giant Discovered In Missouri. Sent to the Smithsonian Where it has Disappeared.

According to the  History, Osage (corruption by French traders of Wazhazhe, their Ponca, Kansa, and Quapaw, with whom they are supposed to have originally constituted a single body living along the lower course of the Ohio River.

    The name "Osage" was a corruption of their name, "Was-haz-he," made by the French, claims that they were the tallest race in North America, either among the red or white men. He states that few were less than six feet in stature and that many were six and one-half and seven feet. They were well-proportioned, good-looking, rather narrow in the shoulders, and, like most tall men, rather inclined to stoop. Their movements were graceful and quick. In war,  or the chase, they were equal to any of the tribes about them. Though long living on, or near, the borders of civilization, they studiously rejected all civilized customs and uniformly dressed in skins of their own preparation. They were one of the few tribes that shaved their heads, and they decorated and painted themselves with great care and some taste. Their heads were of a peculiar shape, owing to the fact that they strapped their infants to a board,  binding the head so tightly as to force in the occipital bone, thus creating an unnatural deficiency} - in the back part and consequently a more than natural elevation of the top of the head.