Indian Burial Mounds in the Missouri River Basin

Author(s): R. W. Neuman

Year: 1960

Summary

Since its inauguration in 1946, the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, along with other cooperating Federal, State and local agencies, has concentrated its efforts toward the salvage of archeological materials that will be lost by the construction of dams and the flooding of reservoirs along the Missouri River and its tributaries. The surveys and excavations have been conducted at historic military forts, trading posts, pioneer settlements and Indian villages; however, most of the investigations have dealt with prehistoric sites which include the large village occupations, hunting and camp sites, buffalo kills, petroglyphs, boulder mosaics, and burial mounds.

This short article will be concerned with burial mound sites on the northern and central Great Plains. Although there are a number of important detailed differences between mound groups, and even between the individual tumuli at a single site, certain generalities are apparent.

Cite this Record

Indian Burial Mounds in the Missouri River Basin. R. W. Neuman. 1960 ( tDAR id: 394095) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FQ9ZRD

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Awl • Bone Beads • Buffallo • Catlinite Pendant • Clay Balls • Deer Antler • Dentalium • Drills • Grinding Stone • Hammerstone • Mandibles • Native Copper Beads • Obsidian • Pendants • Pottery • Projectile points • Red Pigment • Rings • Scraper • Shell Bead • Spoons • Stone Atlatl Weight • Stone Knives • Stone Scrapers

Site Name
Boundary Mound Site • Eagle Creek Site • Russell Mound • Scalp Creek Site • Split Rock Creek Site • Sweat Bee Mound • Truman Site • Weeping Water Site • Whistling Hawk Site

Site Type
Boulder Mosaic • Buffalo Kill • burial mounds • Cairns • Earth Structures • Encampment • Hunting Camp • Petroglyphs • Village

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

General
A.J. Comfort • C.N. Gould • Donald Gunn • Hudson Bay Company • Jacob V. Brown

Geographic Keywords
Barnes County • Big Bend Reservoir • Big Blue River • Blue River • Canada (Country) • Cass (County) • Charles Mix County • Fort Randall Reservoir • Fort Thompson • Great Plains, Nebraska • Gulf of Mexico • Holt County (County) • Iowa • Jamestown Reservoir, North Dakota • Jewell (County) • Kansas (State / Territory) • Manitoba • Minnehaha County • Mississippi River • Missouri River • Missouri River Basin • Oahe Reservoir • Pottawatomie (County) • Rainy River • Red River • Sioux County • Sisseton • Souris River • South Dakota • Sully County • Tuttle Creek Reservoir • Walnut River • White Rock Creek • Wimple Show More

Spatial Coverage

min long: -109.424; min lat: 39.096 ; max long: -88.418; max lat: 49.153 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Anne Vawser

Contributor(s): R. W. Neuman

Notes

General Note: Multiple tDAR resources were created in the past by the National Archaeological Database. All useful and important information has been combined into this current resource.

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