Gigantic Skeletons Unearthed in Nebraska Indian Burial Mound
Lincoln
Evening News, November 8, 1911
WHO WERE THEY?
Find
of Gigantic Skeletons Puzzles Junction City Farmers
An ethnologist
mystery has been uncovered on the farm of John Noland several miles
northwest of this city. In the center of Mr. Nolands’s wheat field
was a mound which he decided to level, and while doing so he
uncovered several human skulls and a large number of bones and teeth,
says a Junction City dispatch to the Topeka State Journal.
One of the skulls and
one of the thigh bones, apparently from the same person, were of
gigantic stature. The big skull is pierced through the back with
several small round holes, apparently such holes as would be made by
small shot from a shotgun.
Persons who have
examined the skulls say they do not resemble the ordinary Indian
skull and the absence of Indian weapons and utensils would seem to
indicate that the bones were not those of Indians. Although a
careful search was made, no Indian relics were found within the
cairn, although there was a brown powdery substance that might have
been wood. The oldest settlers, however say that they do not
remember of any white persons having been buried there. The question
now is, of what race were those who were buried there?
