Large Hopewell Sioux Indians Discovered in a Alton, Illinois Burial Mound

Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)  Aug 30, 1960

The Hopewell Dakota  Sioux,  Kamp Mound Site in Alton, Illinois

Skeletons indicated men six feet tall, More than 100 skeletons have been taken from four mounds atop the bluff near Kampsville by Perino during the summer, the largest such find in a long history of digging into burial grounds of the Hopewell (Dakota Sioux) who lived in this region 2,000 years ago.

8 Foot Giant Uncovered in Iowa: Sioux Indian Legend of Giants Cursed by the Great Spirit

8 Foot Giant Uncovered in Iowa: Sioux Indian Legend of Giants Cursed by the Great Spirit

History of Fremont County, Iowa - 1881

     In 1875 a huge human skeleton was unearthed at a brick-yard about one mile east of Hamburg at a depth of fourteen feet from the surface of the earth. The bones were for the most part in an advanced state of decay but the teeth were well preserved. The remains are believed to be those of a giant at least eight feet in height. The teeth were worn down almost to the jaw-bone, which fact indicated that the "mighty men of renown" must have lived in the days mentioned by the old Indians who formerly lived in the vicinity of Hamburg. "Long ago," said they, "our fathers used to ride across the Missouri river here on their ponies, for the water was very shallow. The eastern margin of the river then was at the foot of the high bluff (at Hamburg) and the river itself was very wide. But there were so many bad men among our fathers in those days and they engaged in so many wars that the Great Spirit cursed the waters of the river (the Missouri) and caused it to run in a narrower and deeper channel, so that the tribes, could not cross and fight and kill one another. After that our fathers lived till their feet were worn off with walking and their teeth worn down with eating." Many other bones of extinct giant animals and men have been found in the same locality where the skeleton before was described."

Osage, Omaha, Mandan, Kansa and Akansea, and Ponca, Cohttps://kdpreports.amazon.com/royaltiesncur that they Formerly Dwelt in the Ohio Valley.

Osage, Omaha, Mandan, Kansa and Akansea, and Ponca, Concur that they Formerly Dwelt in the Ohio Valley.

"The Popular Science Monthly,” “The Sioux and Iroquois Legends, Prehistoric Aborigines of Minnesota and Their Migrations.” N.H. Winchell, 1908

“The Osage and perhaps the Omaha, who belong to the Dakota stock, and who have a tradition which is confirmed by other traditions, that they once lived east of the Mississippi in that very region, [southern Ohio].

With this understanding it is, I repeat, a remarkable fact that, aside from the Muskogee earthworks of the gulf coast, which have distinctive characters, only the Dakotan and Iroquois stocks can be shown either by history or tradition to have been characteristic mound builders.

This legend is found amongst several of the Dakota tribes, and even amongst the later Algonquin who returned westward to the Mississippi Valley. The Osage, Omaha, Mandan, Kansa and Akansea, and Ponca. These tribes concur in saying that they formerly dwelt in the Ohio and Wabash valleys and that they moved down the Ohio Valley, where they were separated into two divisions at the mouth of the Ohio River, some of them going down the Mississippi and some of them up the same river.

It is due to the research of the Late J. V. Brower that the Dakota tribes of Minnesota have proved to belong to the so-called mound-builder dynasty.

There is also a remarkable series of effigy mounds in central and southern Wisconsin, which extended across the Mississippi into Minnesota and Iowa. As to the prevalence of serpent worship, we have shown that there were serpent effigies in Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Dakota, and that all these were situated along the line of migration, which according to tradition of the Dakotas, was followed by their ancestors on reaching their later seats on the Mississippi and Upper Missouri Rivers.” We may conclude from this that the Winnebago were not only effigy builders, but they were serpent worshipers, and that these various serpents were their work.”