THE PliOliLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS. 13 



(Great 11 ill of the Deatl) was raised over the bones of Oiitagami (Fox 

 Iiuliaii) warriors slain in battle with the Freneh in 1700. 



According to a Winnebago tradition, nionnds in certain localities in 

 Wisconsin were built by that tribe, and others by the Sacs and Foxes.^ 



There is another Indian tradition, ai)i)arently fonnded on fact, that 

 the Essex mounds in Clinton County, Mich., are the bnrying places of 

 those killed in a battle between the Chippewas and rottawatomies, 

 which occurred not many generations ago.- 



. V\Y[i^^ Hist. Soc. , Kept. I, pp. 88, 81). 



■^ Smitlisoniau Report, part 1, 1881, p. 848. 



