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The Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, La Salle County County, Illinois
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John Brown, from General Kearney's camp on the Plains, describes discovering an Indian chief's grave in a cottonwood tree near the crossings on July 23. The body is wrapped in skins on mats and lodge poles, with bow, arrows, war-club, and medicine gourd; birds have pecked holes in the covering, secured by buffalo hide strings.
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One "John Brown," writing from the camp of General Kearney, "on the Plains, July 23d," thus describes an Indian grave discovered on their route:
"The other evening at our camp, near the 'crossings,' I found in the top of a cotton wood tree, the grave of an Indian,—probably a chief—the body wrapped in skins, and laid on mats resting on lodge poles, which were passed across two large limbs of the tree. Another package which I could not make out. I was told by some of the men who climbed up to it, held his bow, arrows, war-club, medicine gourd, &c. The birds had picked several holes through his winding sheet to get at the flesh. Over the whole deposit the skin which had probably been used at his lodge, was tightly stretched, and the whole establishment was well secured to the tree by strings cut from buffalo hide. We left him alone in his glory, with his airy resting place undisturbed."
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On The Plains, Near The 'Crossings'
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July 23d
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John Brown discovers an Indian grave, likely a chief's, in a cottonwood tree: body wrapped in skins on mats and lodge poles across limbs, with bow, arrows, war-club, medicine gourd; birds have pecked holes; covered by stretched skin and secured with buffalo hide strings; left undisturbed.