Miami County, Indiana Oto Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound

  This large mound is situated near a small creek in the lowland that may have been flooded when the mound was built. It sits on a nearly circular elevation that may have been artificially cut or constructed to elevate the mound above the floodplain. Locals have called it the “top hat” mound because of the circular platform on which it sits. The property owner said that about ten years ago, her husband was cultivating the adjacent field when he hit a bed of cobbles that was laid out in a square. After removing these, he found underneath a stone tablet with inscriptions that looked “Chinese.” The tablet was next to the house for years but got mixed up with stones being removed from the field and buried in a large rock pile. Per the request of the owner of this property, the location is not given in fear that University archaeologists may destroy the mound.

This Oto Sioux burial mound was located in a rare book published in the early 1980s called "Wheels of Time." The author tracked down many of the burial mounds in Northwest Indiana and was invaluable in finding this site and many others in this part of the state.

The location of the burial mounds in the County: "

In the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 2 are two old mounds about eight feet high and thirty feet in diameter. . ." West of their place, in the north center party Section 5, are two similar mounds. . . South of there, on the west side of the center of Section 15, is a larger mound, probably fifteen feet high and fifty feet in diameter. All these mounds are near the creek; headwaters to Lake Manitou over in Fulton County. For all 85 burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : 121 Photos of Burial Mounds in Ohio Including the :Address Restricted" Sites

Historic Indiana Map showing the general locations of early Oto Sioux Hopewell burial mounds in the County.  The map had to be changed because of fears of landowners that University Archaeologists would destroy the burial mounds in the County.

 

Oto Sioux Hopewell Mound in New Harmony, Indiana (Posey County)

Several burial mounds were photographed within the city of New Harmony, Indiana in Posey County, Oto Sioux have been identified as the builders of the mounds and earthworks in the county. They,and other Dakota Sioux tribes were the Hopewell mound builder.  This site also included some small burial mounds in a "pod." 

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The Oto Sioux Hopewell Norton Burial Mounds in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Dating as early as 400 B.C. the Norton Mounds are a northern extension of the Oto Sioux Hopewell burial mounds and earthworks that are found throughout Indiana extending to the Ohio River.  Despite their Sioux origins the politically correct libs have handed over the Sioux artifacts and skeletal remains to Algonquin Indians who only lived in the region in historic times.

    This is also the case in downtown Grand Rapids where the Converse mound group was located before being destroyed for fill dirt by the city.  A reproduction of the Hopewell Sioux burial mounds was constructed near the site. Unfortunately, these mounds don't recognize their original builders, but have opted for the politically correct assignment to the Algonquins who have no history of being mound builders.

One of the eleven Hopewell burial mounds at the Norton site.  It's been a few years but on my last visit there was evidence of university archaeologist graverobbers digging in and around the burial mounds.  The University of Michigan has been the number one destroyer of burial mounds in the 20th century. 

Several of the Hopewell Sioux mounds are grouped close enough together to get two in on photograph. In Indiana archaeologists have admitted that the burial mounds were of Oto Sioux Hopewell origins but have not empied their vast shelves of artifacts and skeletal remains and returned them.  Maybe Indiana and Michigan academics will eventually do the right thing and return all the skeletal remains and artifacts they have looted from Native American burial mounds and return them to their legitimate ancestors. 

 

Large Oto Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound in Posey County, Indiana

Large Oto Sioux Hopewell burial mound located in Posey County, Indiana. The shape and size is reminiscent of the Seip mound in Ross County, Ohio.

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 Oto Hopewell Sioux Burial Mound Overlooking a Lake in Logan County, Ohio

A large dome shaped mound in Logan County, Ohio. This is the most southern point of burial mounds on lakes that occur most frequently in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Logan County is just west of the Indian State line, where the mounds and earthworks have been designated as Oto Sioux. Burial mounds in northern Indiana have also been found to be associated with the Oto Sioux.  Get directions to this mound 221 more here:

Porter County, Indiana Indian Burial Mounds

 Porter County, Indiana 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

History of Porter County

    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 burial mounds near Boone Grove, Indiana

Photo taken at the same angle as my perspective, showing the burial mounds have changed little in the last 80 years.

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Smaller, Oto Sioux Earthen Circle Discovered at the Strawtown, Indiana Solar Tempe Henge Site

The earthwork is definably a henge. Interior circular platform, interior ditch with an outer wall. This also is devinitive proof that the Oto Sioux were in part the Hopewell Mound Builders. Another hnge site that has been plowed for years is north of  Cambridge City, Indiana that has a very similar appearance even though its inner ditch was originally much deeper. www.nephilimgiants.net : Indiana's Lost Ancient Adena Sun Temples

History of Hamilton County, Indiana 1915

The Fort and Mound

The main work is a circle about three hundred feet in diameter, thrown up in the center, but apparently level and surrounded by a ditch that Mr. Parker says was about six feet deep when he first saw it. Fifty yards to the south of the large circle is a lesser circle about fifty feet in diameter and now almost obliterated

IPFW archaeologists determined that this Hopewell earthen circle was affiliated with the Oto Sioux. Additional Oto Sioux burial mounds and earthworks have been identified at the Mann Site in Posey County, Indiana. 

History of Hamilton County, Indiana 1915

The Fort and Mound

The main work is a circle about three hundred feet in diameter, thrown up in the center, but apparently level and surrounded by a ditch that Mr. Parker says was about six feet deep when he first saw it. Fifty yards to the south of the large circle is a lesser circle about fifty feet in diameter and now almost obliterated.

South of the large circle this earthwork was discovered.  It is believed that these embankments are the smaller 50-foot diameter circle.

 

Newaygo County, Michigan Oto Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound

Burial mound photographed near White Cloud, Michigan    Another mound site in Michigan that could date to 2,000 B.C. Adena Hopewell Mound Builders in the Ohio Valley: Point Peninsula Iroquois Burial Mounds in Newaygo County, Michigan: May Be the Great Lakes Oldest . Giant skeleton found in Kalamazoo Michigan www.nephilimgiants.net : 7 and 8 Foot Ancient Skeletons Discovered in a Burial Mound Near Kalamazoo, Michigan