Porter County, Indiana's Oto Sioux Hopewell Burial Mounds

Two of the largest mounds are still visible a mile and a half east of Boone Grove on C.R. 550 South. Two additional smaller mounds are behind the barn, but in bad shape, as they are being trampled by cattle. A larger mound is east of these in a field and is currently being cultivated.  Adena mound encircled by a ditch in Huntington County, Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : Adena Mound Encircled by an Earthwork is Photographed in Huntington County, Indiana

A map was made by archaeologists before some of the burial mounds were destroyed. It does reveal that eight mounds (9?) surrounded a central large mound.

History of Porter County, 1912

    Although Porter County has not been found so rich in prehistoric remains as some of her sister counties, one of the finest groups of mounds in northern Indiana lies within her borders. The original field notes of the United States land survey in 1834, mention the fact that the north and south line between sections 33 and 34, township 34 north, range 6 west, “passes over a large artificial mound surrounded by a number of smaller ones.” A copy of the original plat now on file in the state auditor’s office at Indianapolis shows the larger mound on the section line, with a group of nine smaller mounds surrounding it in a circle. This is the group of mounds located about a mile and a half east of the village of Boone Grove, on the south side of Wolf creek. At present time there are eight mounds visible on an area of some thirty acres. The plat of the original survey above-mentioned shows ten mounds, but it is possible that two of them have been obliterated by the plow. Seven of the mounds are situated on the high wooded ground.

Early photo of the Oto Sioux Hopewell burial mounds near Boone Grove, Indiana

Photo taken at the same angle as my perspective, (first photo) showing the burial mounds have changed little in the last 100 years.

85 Burial Mound and Earthwork Sites in Indiana!

 

The Hopewell Mound Builder's Big Dipper Swastika

Swastikas have been found within burial mounds in the Ohio Valley.  One possible explanation is that it represented the Big Dipper as it circles the North Star.   More on the swastika in the Ohio Valley www.nephilimgiants.net : The Swastika Associated with Bronze Age Diffusion to the Ohio Valley as the Mound Builders

        These two swastikas were found at the Hopewell Mound Group in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

 Oneota Sioux Hopewell Mounds and Earthworks in Posey County, Indiana

Prehistoric Antiquities of Indiana, Lilly, 1937

The village and burial site near the mouth of the Wabash yielded so many artifacts similar to the Oneota culture, such as limestone disk pipes, copper ear spools, tubular beads, and characteristic triangular arrow points, that Siouan relationship seems almost certain. Probably the village at Bone Bank [Posey County, Indiana] and the citadel at Merom, both on the lower Wabash, were also Siouan sites.

Large loaf shaped burial mound similar to the Seip Mound in Ross County, Ohio is photographed north of Mt.Vernon, Indiana in Posey County. The mound is not recognized as a historic site.

Oneota Sioux burial mound located a few miles east of Mt. Vernon, Indiana. The mound is not recognized as a historic site.

Oneoto Sioux Hopewell burial mound now has a house on top. The tree line in the distance is the Ohio River. This burial mound is also not recognized as a historic site.

Square earthworks similar to those found in Ohio Hopewell sites were diagrammed by Indiana University.

This incised jar design (Lesueur 41205) is a variety of Caborn-Welborn Decorated that is very similar to Oneota jar motifs found in regions to the north and east of the mouth of the Wabash. Note the nested circle and the loop handle. Oneota motifs occur as small percent of the decorated ceramics at many Caborn-Welborn sites.

 

Sumerian and Egyptian Origins of the Hopewell Sioux Mound Builders in the Ohio Valley

Blonde-haired , blue-eyed peoples from ancient Sumeria and Egypt spread west to the Canary Islands to North America.  Their DNA was noted by George Catlin who said that 1/5 of the Mandan Indians had red or blonde hair with blue or green eyes.   The Ohio Hopewell Dakota Sioux mixec with the Indo-European Amorites (giants) in the Ohio Valley www.nephilimgiants.net : Who Were the Biblical Giants called, the Amorites?

The North Americans of Antiquity 1890 
    Professor Retzius, in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive dolichocephaly of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard of Africa, which Latham comprises under the name of an Egyptian-Atlantidæ.   
  A remarkable fact about the American Indians, and one which is a standing puzzle to ethnologists, is the wide range of colour and complexion to be found among them. From the white tint of the Dakota, Mandan and Zuni tribes, many of whom have auburn hair and blue eyes, to the almost negro blackness of the Karos of Kansas and the now extinct tribes of California, the Indian races run through every shade of red-brown, copper, olive, cinnamon, and bronze. (See Short's North Americans of Antiquity, Winchell's Pre-Adamites, and Catlin's Indians of North America; see also Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly who has collected a great mass of evidence under this and other heads.) We shall see by and by how the diversity of complexion on the American continent is accounted for by the original race-tints on the parent continent of Atlantis.

 

Early Historians Identify the Ohio Hopewell as Dakota Sioux and Cherokee

Chief White Cloud of the Ioway Sioux was the face of the Hopewell Mound Builders in the Ohio Valley. More on the Cherokee as part of the Hopewell mound builders www.nephilimgiants.net : Ancient Cherokee Stone Cist Graves of Kentucky

American Antiquarian, 1891

Migrations of the mound builders:

Vol. XIII. May 1891. No. 3. THE MIGRATIONS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. 
     By Stephen D. Peet. One of the most striking peculiarities about the Mound-build ers was that they avoided the coast and concentrated their forces thoroughly in the interior, making the rivers their special places of resort. We have already spoken of this in connection with the Mississippi River and have shown that it was the great thoroughfare for the prehistoric races, the migrations of the races having been along its channels in both directions. Some of the races — such as the Dakotas — are known to have passed up from the south to the north, Perhaps the Mound-builders passed down from the north to the south at an earlier date. The Missouri River was another great artery which supplied life to the Mound-builders' territory. It is said that there are various mounds of the pyramidal type on the Missouri River, and that these have been traced at intervals along the channels, giving evidence that this was the route which the pyramid-builders took before they reached the stopping place. At its mouth was the capital of the pyramid-builders. The Ohio River was also an artery of the Mound-builders' territory. It was the channel through which the various Mound-builders poured. The Ohio River was the dividing line between the northern class of mound- builders, who were probably hunters, and the southern class, who were agriculturists. 

     We may say, then, that it is a peculiarly favorable place to study the migrations of the Mound-builders, as well as of the later Indians. Now in reference to this subject of migration, we are aware that various writers have treated of it, and it may be regarded as a test case, having great bearing on the mound- builders' problem. It may be well, then, to refer to these opinions before we go further. We shall speak first of the theory which Dr. Thomas has advanced. It is that the Mound-builders of the Alleghany River, those of Southern Ohio, of the Kanawha Valley and of Eastern Tennessee, were all the same people and were the ancestors of the Cherokees. 

    Haywood says the Cherokees had a tradition in which was contained the history of their migrations. It was that they came from the upper part of the Ohio, where they erected earth works. But there is a map contained in Catlin's book on the Indians which represents the route taken by the Mandans, a branch of the Dakotas. This map makes Ohio the starting point of that people, and the headwaters of the Missouri the termination of their wanderings. We regard this tradition as important as that of the Delawares or of the Iroqouis, but it is a tradition which gives just the opposite direction for the route of the Mound-builders of the district. How shall we reconcile the two accounts? Our method of reconciling is one which we take from the study of the mounds. The Dakota tradition refers to a migration which probably preceded all the records of either the Teleghewi, the Cherokees, the Delawares and the Iroquois, the migration of the strange serpent worshipers originally occupying this district. Our position is that all of the traditions are important, but they prove a succession of populations in this region. If Dr. Thomas is to locate the Cherokees here, we also locate the ancestors of the Dakotas, and leave the way open for others to locate other tribes, so making the Mound-builders not one. but diverse and long continued. This is our point.

    Here then we have the evidence. The migrations of the pyramid builders, like that of the stone grave people, may have been across the Ohio valley at the west end. The migration of the circle builders, sun worshipers, may have been north or south, across the Ohio Valley at the east end; but, on the contrary, the serpent-worshipers, whose works are found on the Ohio River and on the Mississippi River, must have migrated through the whole middle district, the Ohio River being the thoroughfare. It does not seem reasonable that they were the same people who built the bee-hive vaults or even the chambered tombs, for not one such structure is found in all their western track.

    Our conclusion is that there were various migrations of mound builders through and across the Ohio Valley, some of them having been sun worshipers, some of them serpent worshipers and some pyramid-builders. If any of these are to be identified with the Cherokees, others with as much reason may also be identified with the Dakotas, the testimony of tradition and of language, as well as of archaeology, corresponding on this point

 

Osage Hopewell Mound Builders of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri

Osage Hopewell Mound Builders of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri It's important to know that the Oto Sioux have been identified as the builders of mounds and earthworks in central Indiana at sites like Strawtown and the Posey County, Indiana Mann works and burial mounds. Large Osage Hopewell Sioux  skeleton found in a Missouri Cave. www.nephilimgiants.net : Large Human Osage Hopewell Mound Builders Skeleton Discovered in a Missouri Cave

 

Large Human Skeletons Discovered With the Shriveled Hand of a Child in Jay County, Indiana

A single mound of three is still visible in Jay County. The mound was constructed on the shore of an ancient lake; the opposite shoreline can be seen in the distance. Giant skeletons with Neanderthal heads were also found in Jay County, Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : Neanderthal Looking Skulls Discovered in Jay County, Indiana

History of Randolph County, Indiana, 1885

Jay County

    In a ditch dug by Joseph Stevens, in the northeast part of Green Township, nearly south of Powers Station, to drain a pond, great numbers of human bones were taken out, many being of unusual size. The jawbones were full of teeth. There was found also what seemed to be a shriveled hand, like that of a little child.

      About a hundred giant skeletons were reported across Indiana.  JHere is a post of mass graves of giants found in Indiana  www.nephilimgiants.net : Mass Graves of Giant Humans Found Across Indiana

 

Large Human Osage Hopewell Mound Builders Skeleton Discovered in a Missouri Cave

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in a Missouri Cave. Map shows the ancient areas controlled by the Osage Hopewell Sioux  Map shows the area controlled by the Osage HopewellSioux mound builders Mysteries of Ancient America Books: Osage Hopewell Mound Builders of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri

The Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) February 26, 1894

SKELETON FOUND IN A CAVE

They Are Supposed to be Delaware Indians Buried Long Ago

    Ozark, Missouri, Feb., 26 - There is a little cave in the bluffs of Finley creek, about two miles north of Ozark, which Bruce McCord was cleaning out for a cellar. Under a layer of limestone and beneath about six inches of earth he found two human, one measuring 7 feet in length. The skull was of gigantic size and very thick. The bones were all in place and well preserved, apparently, though they soon crumble to pieces when exposed to the air.