Who Destroyed the Ancient Breckenridge Creek Indian Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana?

 Wonder who destroyed the Ancient Breckenridge Creek (Purdue Campus) Indian Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana?

On the left is my photo of the Breckinridge Creek Indian burial mound taken in 2010. I took the photo on the right in May 2025. Who excavated this burial mound? Purdue University, where the mound is located?  The burial mound is visible from end of the bike path on the Purdue campus.

History of Allen County, Indiana 1880

 "Still further down the river, on the east side, at the mouth of Breckenridge Creek, is a single mound, which has not been opened except a slight excavation in its side, which developed the customary lumps of charcoal. This point is about four miles north of Fort Wayne and is the most southerly point in the county at which mounds and earthworks are known to exist."

Ancient Indiana Travel: Six Ancient Sun Temples (Henges) in Indiana Dating 500 B.C.- 200 A.D.

 

Six Ancient Sun Temples (Henges) in Indiana Dating 500 B.C.- 200 A.D.

Ancient Indiana Travel

  There are eighty-five burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana! Only three sites are registered as historic sites or preserved. Most notable are the three henge complexes made to align with the sun, moon, and bright stars in New Castle, Cambridge City, and Mounds State Park in Anderson.

They date as early as 500 B.C - 200 A.D. The same people constructed the rectangular enclosure in Winchester to align with the solstices that created a Pythagorean triangle within the work. Indiana archaeologists reported this with another Pythagorean triangle formed in the spacing of the Newark, Ohio earthworks and recognized by Brad Lepper, curator of Archaeology at the Ohio History Connection. Near the Winchester work was another square earthwork at Fountain City that was constructed to be numerically harmonic with the lengths of the walls at Winchester. Winchester's east-west earthen walls were 1320 feet, and the north-south walls were 1080 feet. Fountain City consisted of four 780-foot walls. 1320 - 780 = 540, 540 + 540 = 1080.  Knowledge of pi, squaring circles, geometry, trigonometry, surveying...these people's math was as advanced as the rulers of Babylon from 2,000 B.C. - 1600 B.C. called the Amorites. They were one of the giant tribes accounted for in the Bible. 

    When you visit the earthworks, you will know that they are far more than piles of dirt.

    I believe the Amorites were the Adena mound builders. I think the Dakota Sioux were the Hopewell mound builders. The advanced mathematics used in constructing the geometric earthworks is not of Native American origin. Building henges as astronomical calendars are identical to those found in the British Isles with Amorite origins. In England, we have conical burial mounds surrounded by earthwork or moat, and we also find it is a type of burial mound in the Ohio Valley. There are too many similarities to suggest they are independent of one another. 

   Political correctness is the driving force behind the narrative of universities. Only recently have the universities acknowledged the Pythagorean triangles with the doctrine that if you believe the Native Americans didn't figure it out, it is deemed racist.

1.) Mounds State Park, Anderson, Indiana Burial Mound and Henge Complex

        There were ten henge groups in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. The best preserved is Mounds State Park. The Great henge was constructed to align with the solstices and bright stars. The burial mound in the center of the henge's platform was aligned to the solstices for two thousand years before being destroyed by university archaeologists ignorant to its importance as a solar marker. Two earthworks are still visible but not marked by the park. 

The importance of the burial mound in the central platform is visible in this map of the henge's alignments. Universities destroyed the mound: they should rebuild it. The small work aligned to Fomalhaut is still visible but not marked. The outer wall has dips like a great serpent surrounding the central platform, these dips were made to align to stars and the solstices.

The importance of the burial mound in the central platform is visible in this map of the henge's alignments. Universities destroyed the mound: they should rebuild it.

   A henge is described as an earthwork with an interior ditch and an outer wall with a gateway that is generally aligned to a solar event. (This is an exception). The deep ditch initially held water.

To the north of the previous henge is this panduriform shaped henge that is aligned to the May 1 Beltane sunrise. The sun will also set on the gateway to the west on October 31.

2.) New Castle, Indiana Burial Mound and Henge Complex

 

    Despite Ball State University all but destroyed the jewel of Indiana's antiquities, which was the loaf-shaped burial mound surrounded by a deep ditch. Most of this burial is gone except for the ditch that surrounded it. There are still four henges visible, along with two burial mounds. This site is on public land but is not preserved or recognized as a historic site.

    

New Castle, Indiana henge complex.

You can only see the remnants of this mound and earthwork site in winter when the high grass has died. The ditch around the large mound is visible, along with the henge, a burial mound to the west. To the south, in the woods, three henges can be seen. 

This is the large loaf-shaped burial mound oriented to the east with a surrounding earthwork and ditch (much like a henge) before Ball State University archaeologists all but destroyed it. 

I am standing in the middle of the now-destroyed burial mound, looking west on the Equinox when the sun aligns with the two burial mounds. You can see the surrounding ditch in the foreground.

To the west of the loaf-shaped burial mound were two henges, one easier to see than the other. The outer walls of the henge are highlighted in the photo. One of the better-preserved henges is to the south.

Also, in New Castle, Indiana, this single henge has a gateway aligned to the winter solstice sunrise. The henge is located next to the High School in a public park.

Cambridge City, Indiana Henge Complex

    The Cambridge City Henge Complex has been plowed for a hundred years, yet the largest henge is still visible in cultivated fields. Originally, the southern henge was the same dimensions as the Mounds State Park henge at 210 feet in diameter. 

     It is hard to define, but the southern henge's gateway is a little north of east and may have been aligned to the May 1, Beltane sunrise. 

     One interesting feature at the site was a cut made in the earth to make a graded way that led from the center of the two henges to the creek below.

    Three major henge sites in Indiana, all within twenty miles of one another, make this the henge capital of the Ohio Valley. That only one is being preserved shows that Indiana needs to be made aware of the economic value of having these prehistoric remains utilized as travel destinations. 

The Indiana Geological Survey did this map of the Cambridge City works in about 1915. The original map shows that the southern henge was aligned to the east and the northern henge to what appears to be the summer solstice sunrise. Between the two henges you can see where the cut was made that lead down to the West Branch of the White River.

A LIDAR photograph of the site reveals that the southern henge may align with the May 1 Beltane sunrise. The Beltane alignment also occurs at the North Panduriform henge at Mounds State Park. The LIDAR image reveals that the northern henge was not circular in shape but a panduriform. The gateway appears to be aligned with the equinox sunrise. There are as many as thirteen smaller earthen circles at this site.

This photograph was taken on the cut's western side, looking east towards the earthworks. The sacred way connected the sun temples in the upper world to the water in the lower world. This geographical aspect also occurs at Mounds State Park and New Castle, where the burial mounds and henges were built on high bluffs overlooking a river. 

This is what the southern henge looks like today. It is still an impressive ancient sun temple.

Yorktown Indiana Henge

    A history of Delaware County mentioned in 1881 that near Yorktown, there was "one of those enclosures … of the class know as fortifications." I went to this site in or about 2006 and talked to the landowner, who complained that Ball State University archaeologists were trespassing on their land without even asking permission. They would have been given permission had they asked. Instead, they were asked not to return.

  Ball State archaeologists wrote in their report, "The site retains integrity and is one of only two surviving examples of isolated circular enclosures in east central Indiana."  Another isolated henge in Delaware County was destroyed by farming. A single henge still exists in New Castle, Indiana, and another in Allen County, Indiana.

Yorktown's henge gateway is aligned with the summer solstice sunrise. This is the first earthwork that the Archaeological Conservatory purchased." This is good since Indiana has no plans to preserve anything.

The interior ditch of the henge holds water as it was originally intended to do.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Henge

The henge is located north of Fort Wayne on the St. Joseph and is the northernmost of all the sun temples. I was at this site on the Equinox sunrise, and there was no alignment that I believed would line up on the Beltane sunrise of May 1.  Three other henges in Indiana and Ohio have this May 1 sunrise alignment that hints that a Celtic people once inhabited these regions.

The Desecration of Oneota Sioux Burials by Indiana (IPFW) Fort Wayne Archaeologists

 The Desecration of Oneota Sioux Burials at Strawtown, Indiana by (IPFW) Fort Wayne Archaeologists

"I would say in general," Sutter said, "I don't think anybody who has knowingly violated NAGPRA regulations should be permitted to work as an archaeologist at a minimum.”

More on the evidence that the Strawtown site was of Oneota Sioux Hopewell origins  www.nephilimgiants.net : Strawtown Hopewell Earthwork Determined to be Oneota Sioux in Central Indiana

The archaeological dig at Strawtown, Indiana, was extensive, leaving a wake of destruction on this ancient Oneota Sioux burial and earthwork complex. Archaeologists found a copper headdress at the site with skeletal remains that are diagnostic of Middle Woodland Oneota Sioux Hopewell dating 300 B.C. - 500 A.D.   Oneota Sioux Hopewell have been recognized across Indiana from the Mann Site in Posey County to the Porter County in northwest Indiana. I know of no skeletal remains that have been returned to the Oneota Sioux. If archaeologists recognized the Dakota Sioux as the builders of burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana, they would be forced to empty their vast collections of artifacts and skeletal remains.  

    In Indiana, the greatest threat to the ancient burial mounds and earthworks is the presence of university archaeologists. When will the government finally defund the universities?

These are excerpts from just one of the articles that detail the university archaeologists' crimes at Strawtown, Indiana. 

How a Native American burial site was desecrated in Hamilton County
County, university officials aggressively excavated ancient burial site at Strawtown Park, trampling on rights of tribes to protect their dead
Chris Sikich

chris.sikich@indystar.com 11/5/16 Full story here 

Eternal unrest: How archaeologist, Hamilton County park officials defiled Native American graves (indystar.com)

"The first summer archaeologists began excavating a Native American burial ground at Strawtown Koteewi Park, they found a human jawbone.

The law was clear. They should have notified Native American tribes to allow them the opportunity to rebury their ancestor.

Instead, they studied, cataloged and boxed up the bone fragments. And for the next 10 years, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne's archaeological team and the Hamilton County Parks & Recreation Department continued digging aggressively — never notifying tribal leaders.

"What happened is awful," Richard Sutter, the head of IPFW's anthropology department, told IndyStar. "It's inexcusable."

"Andrew Smith and Craig Arnold, two of McCullough’s assistant archaeologists, said they excavated entire structures, in many cases leaving nothing untouched. They dug so extensively that future archaeologists who might have new technology will not be able to reinvestigate certain sites. Procedure calls for no more than half of structures to be excavated and they took so many artifacts from the ground, it left little money for analysis."

"Karin Maloney, an archaeologist who worked as a history interpreter for the park from 2006 to 2012, said she told McCullough and Patterson the excavations were violating NAGRPA within a year of being hired."

They did not stop until they uncovered a skull. They found a copper plate beneath the skull, indicating a person of status.

"I would say in general," Sutter said, "I don't think anybody who has knowingly violated NAGPRA regulations should be permitted to work as an archaeologist at a minimum.”

Arnold and Smith began working with the tribes, a collaboration that ultimately led to a list of 90,000 items that were found in graves, near human remains or within sacred sites.

Each new revelation over the next several years — from the fact human bones and grave offerings had been excavated, to the discovery that thousands of children had participated in digs at grave sites — heightened the outrage of Strack and other tribal representatives.

"The idea that uninformed, untrained children were participating in the excavations, pushing dirt through screens, was unthinkable," Strack said. "That could be the decomposed remains of our ancestors."

By November 2012, three tribes had filed federal complaints.

Even then, they did not file a report with the NAGPRA office.

Instead, McCullough removed the pottery, which is now thought to be a burial vessel. A significant find, it was the first artifact to link an early Great Lakes culture called the Oneota to Central Indiana.

 

Adena Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on the St. Joseph River is Destroyed by University Archaeologists

A burial mound that has been partially submerged from the St. Joseph River dam can be seen from the shore on Purdue University's campus. I recently went back to the site to find that university archaeologists have all but destroyed this historic treasure.  A 2,000 year old solar henge was also photographed on the St. Joseph River www.nephilimgiants.net : Fort Wayne's Ancient Sun Temple Henge 200 B.C.

The History of Allen County, Indiana, 1888:

“Prehistoric Remains” by R. S. Robertson

Still further down the river, on the east side, at the mouth of Breckenridge Creek, is a single Indian mound, which has not been opened except a slight excavation in its side, which developed the customary lumps of charcoal. This point is about four miles north of Ft. Wayne and is the most southerly point in the county at which mounds and earthworks are known to exist.

 

Iroquois Burial Mound Photographed in Allen County, Indiana Before it was Destroyed by IPFW (Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne) Archaeologists

Iroquois burial mound located in eastern Allen County, Indiana on the Maumee River.  The date fo this burial mound is likely Middle Woodland dating from 300 A.D. - 800 A.D. This prot-Iroquois burial mound was photographed prior to being destroyed by IPFW archaeologist, who removed skeletons and artifacts from the mound according to one of the neighbors who was an eyewitness to the dig.  the destruction of this burial mound and the warehousing of artifacts and skeletons at the Strawtown, Indian mound and earthwork.  80% of all archaeological digs there was no known academic paper produced from this excavation. To see all of the burial mounds in Allen County, Indiana  https://adenahopewellmoundbuildersohiovalley.blogspot.com/2011/10/mound-builders-in-fort-wayne-allen.html

    
  222 burial mounds and earthworks sites were photographed, and directions provided in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan.  84 sites were photographed in Indiana.

DISCOVER AN ANCIENT WORLD

 Giant Human Skeleton Found in Fort Wayne's West Central Neighborhood's Ancient Burial Ground

History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868

    In the extreme west end of the city [West Central] there -'was formerly an extensive bluff, perhaps some fifteen or sixteen feet higher than any other point within the present limits of Fort Wayne, which covered originally some two squares. It was, indeed, an immense sand heap. When, and how long accumulating, the ages alone can determine. The sand is of a rather fine quality, and much of it has served well, doubtless, for mortar, in building and other purposes. It extended from Wayne street, fronting and within, a few yards of the college, towards the river, a short distance below Berry street, and eastward perhaps about a square; somewhat sloping in its general character. Its highest point was at about the present terminus of Berry street. Over this knoll there extended but little vegetative life ; a few indifferent bushes here and there over it and about its margin, formed, perhaps, the principal part of its productive growth, as is usually the case with sandy points. The Indians are said to have had some huts upon it, some years ago. In removing this- great sand, heap, as in digging at other points within the present limits of Fort Wayne, the Indians having deposited their dead here and there, many bones and skulls were exhumed and removed. On one occasion, some workmen thus engaged, among many others, dug up a most remarkable skull —with high forehead and general formation extremely large — indicating a giant form to the possessor.

Haunted West Central Neighborhood

   

Anyone who has lived in Fort Wayne's West Central Neighborhood has heard tales of the older homes being haunted. Most of these hauntings are on the west end of Berry and Wayne Streets, where the Indian cemetery was located. The sandhill where the bodies were buried was bulldozed to build homes. There are still burials that remain in the backyards of Washington Blvd. on the top of the bluff of the sandhill that still remains.

Fort Wayne's Ancient Sun Temple Henge 200 B.C.

 Fort Wayne's Ancient Sun Temple Henge 200 B.C.

 This solar temple or henge (a circular earthwork with an interior ditch and Gateway usually aligned to a solar event. The Gateway faces east and could be aligned to the May 1 Beltane and the October 31 Samhain as the large henge at Newark, Ohio. It is on private property but easily seen from the gravel road. 

   This ancient henge could date as early as 500 B.C. 

    A Two-thousand-year-old sun temple is not worth recognizing or preserving by Allen County's worthless Historical Society. 

85 Burial Mound and Earthwork sites in Indiana. 82 Sites photographed for the first time!

 

 

Fort Wayne Indiana Iroquois Earthen Fortification 800 A.D.

The earthen walls of Fort Wayne's first fort constructed by the Iroquois Indians about 800 A.D. can still be found along the St. Joseph River in Allen County, Indiana. The fort was horseshoe shaped with the walls 200 feet apart at the River.  Downstream from the Iroquois fort was a burial mound visible from the Purdue campus. Much of it was destroyed by IPFW archaeologist before their school was eliminated for their crimes of stealing skeletons at the Strawtown, Indiana earthwork www.nephilimgiants.net : Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on the St. Joseph River

The curved wall that connected the two parallel walls was the largest of the earthen walls. This little-known site is not recognized as a historic destination. 

Discover 85 ancient mound and earthwork sites in Indiana.  222 burial mound and earthwork sites in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan.

 

Ancient Iroquois Earthen Fortification Revealed in Lidar Image Near Fort Wayne, Indiana

On the north side of the bend, the remains of the Iroquois, horseshoe-shaped earthwork is clearly visible in the Lidar image.  The forts' approximate location is direct across from Riverbend Golf Course. For more pictures and historical documentation of this earthwork in Fort Wayne, Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : Iroquois Fort Photograph 800 A.D. Fort Wayne Indiana

The earthen banks of the Iroquois earthwork is still visible on the St. Joseph River, north of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

85 ancient earthworks photographed and directions provided in Indiana

 

Hamilton County Parks Department Fined For Allowing IPFW Archaeologists to Desecrate and Steal Native American Remains

    Hamilton Parks Department has been fined $6,533 for allowing IPFW archaeologists to grave rob thousands of skeletal fragments from the Strwatown earthworks.  The site was likely constructed by the Oto Sioux but was brought to light by the Miami Indians who resided in Indiana in historic times.

Reported in the Indy Star by Chris Sikich, Nov. 13, 2017

"The first summer archaeologists began excavating a Native American burial ground at Strawtown Koteewi Park, they found a human jawbone.

The law was clear. They should have notified Native American tribes to allow them the opportunity to rebury their ancestor.

Instead, they studied, cataloged and boxed up the bone fragments. And for the next 10 years, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne's archaeological team and the Hamilton County Parks & Recreation Department continued digging aggressively — never notifying tribal leaders.

"What happened is awful," Richard Sutter, the head of IPFW's anthropology department, told IndyStar. "It's inexcusable."

An IndyStar investigation found archaeologists and park officials ran roughshod over a federal law designed to protect Native American graves. Their actions not only compromised an important archaeological site, they further eroded the state’s already long-strained relationship with Native Americans."

 

Indiana's Ancient Giant Race

The Burlingame Enterprise (Burlingame, Kansas) August 20, 1903

    The Indianapolis News says; “The way they are digging up seven and eight-foot skeletons 

in various parts of the state leads us to doubt whether we are really the greatest people that 

ever lived in Indiana at all.” That's about the only skeletons that can be found in Indiana. 

The medical colleges got the rest. More on Indiana's giants

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Allen County, Indiana

History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868

     "In removing this- great sand, heap, as in digging at other points within the present limits 

of Fort Wayne, the Indians having deposited their dead here and there, many bones and 

skulls were exhumed and removed. On one occasion, some workmen thus engaged, among 

many others, dug up a most remarkable skull —with high-forehead and general formation 

extremely large — indicating a giant form to the possessor."

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in Bartholomew County

Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1892, 

Two More Skeletons Unearthed Relics the West Fork Historical Society Will Exhibit at the Fair

   
    Columbus, Ind., July 19. - [Special] – The West Fork Historical Society has unearthed two 

female skeletons from the mound of which the large male skeleton was taken about a year 

ago. It is said one of these skeletons possesses a remarkably fine specimen of Caucasian skull 
and the other one of Mongolian and Caucasian characteristics.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Boone County, Indiana

Marshall County Independent (Plymouth, Indiana) September 1, 1900

    Three skeletons were found in a small mound on a farm near Whitestown. They are much 

larger than skeletons of the present day.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Cass County, Indiana

The Daily Democrat (Huntington, Indiana) December 2, 1895

PREHISTORIC GIANT

A Monster Skeleton Unearthed in Noble Township

   The gruesome relic of a prehistoric giant chief measured nearly eight feet in length. In life 

the individual to whom these bones belonged must have been a veritable giant.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Decatur County, Indiana

The Indiana Gazetteer, 1849

Decatur County, Indiana

   From the size of such bones of the skeleton as remain, it must have once been of gigantic size. 

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in DeKalb County, Indiana

Smithsonian Annual Report, 1874

Dekalb County, Indiana

       We were informed by Mr. Gonzer that it was opened about twenty years ago when the 

skeleton was found the thigh bone of which was as long as his leg, and the skull as large as a 

half bushel measure.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Delaware County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey 1881

Delaware County, Indiana

   
     The Indians used many of the hills as burial places; bones have been discovered which from 

their size would indicate that they belonged to a race of giants.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fayette County, Indiana

Sunday Vindicator, Sunday, September 12, 1897

NINE FEET TALL

Was This Man Whose Skeletons Was Found In Indiana

    
     The remains indicate that the being of which this was once part, was a veritable giant, 

probably nine feet in height.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fulton County, Indiana

Logansport Pharos-Trubune August 16, 1898

     A skeleton of a gigantic Indian was plowed up after the removal of two immense stones 

from a field near Kewanna.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered In Grant County, Indiana

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, 1883

Grant County, Indiana  

   The ball and socket and thigh-bones were taken to a physician in Upland and he estimated 

the bones were of a man at least nine feet tall and not weighing less than three hundred 

pounds and the man was not fleshy.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Henry County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey, 1862

Henry County, Indiana

      About seven or eight miles west of New Castle, a number of Indian skeletons were 

disinterred in the constructing a turnpike, and about the same distance south of town some 

remarkable humans bones and skeletons of giant size were dug out, with other relics, during 

the making of the road.

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