THOMAS | INDIAN BURIALS, IOWA. ae 
In this connection, and before referring to the mounds of this district 
on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, I desire to call attention to some 
modern Indian burials in this region. As the statements here made 
are from one claiming to be an eye-witness, I give them as related to 
the Bureau assistant. 
The locality is a level plat in a bend of the Des Moines River between 
Eldon and Iowaville, Wapello County. The plat of this area and the 
sites of the burial places, as shown in Fig. 9, are based upon the state- 



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Fic. 9.—Plat of Indian burying-ground, Wapello County, Iowa. 
ments of Mr. J. H. Jordan (the person referred to), who has resided here 
since the close of the Black Hawk war, and was the agent of the Saes 
and Foxes from their removal hither after the war until Black Hawk’s 
death, September 15, 1838.! 
' According to Drake, ‘Indians of North America,” he died October 3, 1838. 
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