Kansas Hopewell Dakota Sioux Burial Pit Included Large Skeletons
The Burial Pit
The burial pit is first reported in the Miami Daily News (Miami, Oklahoma) October 11, 1936
"Salina, Kas., Oct – (AP) – Discovery of an Indian communal burial ground believed to contain the remains of a tribe that roamed the plains of central Kansas more than 500 years ago, has been made five miles east of here by Guy T. Whiteford, policeman-archaeologists. Whiteford said he already has excavated 27 skulls and three complete skeletons, one of which he asserted was seven feet tall. The position of burial and ornaments found near the remains indicated the body was that of a chief, he said."
An update on the excavation of the burial mound describes the artifacts that were found as burial inclusions along with the large size of many of the skeletal remains.
The Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 24, 1936
"Excavating an Indian burial mound on his grandmother's farm, Howard Kohr of Salina, Kas., unearthed 79 skeletons. With the bones were clay pots, grinding stones and shell knives for the use by the spirits in the next world."
The Salina Journal, June 24, 1956
“Big Fellows: The bones show the prehistoric Indians were of remarkable size and strength. Many of the skeletons are those of men who were well over six feet in height. Most of the skeletons are doubled up in a flexed position resembling that of a fetus. A great number of them lie with their heads to the south and facing east. Price believes that possibly the Indians were sun-worshippers who believed the dead would be reborn again. Hence the bodies were buried so that they would be ready for re-birth.”
Burials in a flexed position are more common in Hopewell burials in the western states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Nebraska opposed to the extended burials found in the Ohio Valley. The most common attribute of the Hopewell is that of sun-worshippers, which is revealed in the Kansas burials. This type of burial is in contrast to the Pawnee who buried their dead singularly in graves dug in sandy soil encased in a buffalo robe.
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