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ants were engaged in sucli work to a consideiable ex- 

 tent, during the time of their stay on these grounds. 

 The colder part of the year would seem to be specially 

 conducive to such occupation. 



These people do not seem to have been a warlike 

 tribe. There are only two flints in the collection that 

 resemble tomahawks. Their arrowpoints and spearheads 

 seem better suited for the killing of small game than 

 for the battlefield. But few of the relics can be regarded 

 as implements of war. This may perhaps be taken as 

 an indication that the inhabitants were a peaceful race, 

 who quietly subsisted on the natural resources of the 

 western plains, before the strife had yet begun which 

 was a result of the encroachments of civilization from 

 the East. 



ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP. 



A guess may perhaps be warranted as to the ethnic 

 relationship of the tribe. We have seen that some frag- 

 ments of catlinite pipes picked up with the other mate- 

 rial were of the so called Siouan t3^pe and that the 

 stone mallets are of a kind that is known to have been 

 used by some tribes of the Sioux Indians of the west. 

 The Sioux Indians were to some extent an agricultural 

 people. They raised corn. So did also the inhabitants 

 of this village. They possibly belonged to some tribe 

 of the great Siouan famil^^ But if such was the case, 

 they lived on the outskirts of the Siouan domain. To 

 the south and the west there were other Indians. 

 Those of this village seem to have ground their corn on 



