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side of the Mississippi, in the northeast corner of the present State 

 of Arkansas. The source of the statement on the map is not known. 

 If, however, this was the early home of the tribe, it would be reason- 

 able to attribute to them certain of the burial mounds standing in 

 the valley of the Sangamon, although they may have moved south- 

 ward before the Illinois obtained firearms. In later years the Kick- 

 apoo occupied a village on the Sangamon, but the exact location 

 is not known. It was evidently protected by a palisade, for in men- 

 tioning it a century ago it was said, " This fortification is distin- 

 guished by the name of Etnataek. It is known to have served as an 

 intrenchment to the Kickapoos and Foxes, who were met there and 

 defeated by the Potawatomis, the Ottowas, and the Chippewas." 

 (Keating, (1) , I, p. 171.)" And according to the late Dr. William Jones, 

 whose knowledge of the Algonquian language will probably never be 

 equaled by another, the name Etnataek may have been derived from 

 d^tanataheg^ ^ signifying " where the battle, fight, or clubbing took 

 place." 



The burial mound on the Sangamon Bluff, in which the gun was 

 discovered, may have been erected by the Kickapoo after the valley 

 was abandoned by the Michigamea, and the Kickapoo may likewise 

 have been the builders of other similar works occurring in the coun- 

 try which they once occupied. 



A very remarkable example of rectangular stone inclosure was dis- 

 covered in a mound on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi, in the 

 town of Dunleith, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. This is the extreme 

 northwest corner of the State, and the mound was one of a large 

 group. Its height was about 10 feet, with a diameter of 65 feet. To 

 quote the description of the interior : " The first six feet from the top 

 consisted of hard gray earth. . . . This covered a vault built in part 

 of stone and in f)art of round logs. When full}- uncovered this was 

 found to be a rectangular crypt, inside measurement showing it to 

 be thirteen feet long and seven feet wide. The four straight, sur- 

 rounding walls were built of small unhewn stones to the height of 

 three feet and a foot or more in thickness. Three feet from each end 

 was a cross wall or partition of like character, thus leaving a central 

 chamber seven feet square, and a narrow cell at each end about two 

 feet wide and seven feet long. This had been entirely covered with a 

 single layer of round logs, varying in diameter from six to twelve 

 inches, laid close together side by side across the width of the vault, 

 the ends resting upon and extending to uneven lengths beyond the 

 side walls." In the central space were 11 human skeletons, as indi- 

 cated in the drawings, figure 8 showing a section of the mound and 

 figure 9 a ground plan of the inclosure. " They had all apparently 

 been interred at one time as they were found arranged in a circle in a 



