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* \u .. •k ;•#aarafc Are Located.a *•:uin of 8am* Name Wee Happy Hunting Grounds end Center ef Tribe** Population.The Indian history and remains of the region about Lake Shawano and the Wolf river are discussed In the Wisconsin AreheoJogist In an ^article by George R. Pox and H. O. Younger.lake Shawano was the center.,of Indian population of considerable number. and the authors of the article located trails, camp sites, mounds and Other Indian remains in great abuti dance. Several of the old Indian leg ends regarding the first Indian settlement of this region are also includedin the work.Among the old trails definitely located 1* one which led from the Wolf river to the Wisconsin river, meeting ,the latter stream near Wausau. Another trail ran along the eastern shore iof Lake Shawano to Mud lake and ithence to the Oconto river near Pul-dfer. A third trail ran southeast toBonduel and north to Cecil. The Fox river Itself wns of course the chiefIndian highway.The legends regarding the oceupa-(tioo of the 8hnwano lake country arc 'still a part of Menominee lore and perhaps contain some facts, because the (direct descendants of the first Indian ■settlers in this country still live. A dream of a beautifol lake, accord ag to the legend, brought an old lndlnn »nd his family to the place which afterward became a large Indian settle-unent.1 The mounds In the region were probably built by predecessors of the iMenominees, because the latter did not bury in mounds. Some mounds were ifonnd near Pickerel creek, some In the city of Shawano, and others on tne Wider shores, where It is .do much investigating. On Mud lake U in the town of Weseott they found | a group of four mounds and1 near the ^roup a mound more than 35 feet la{diameter.1 The dty of Shawano co-.aiiK traces of one of the largest mound ■groups In the northeastern part or tne State. A group of SO or more mounds was situated at the terminus of Green Bay street. Many of these have been destroyed by the tilling of fields and ■leveling of streets.
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Manitowoc Daily Herald
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Nov 05, 1917
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