Thurston County NeArchives News.....Winnebago Indians Ask For Common Burying Ground September 24, 1910
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The Lincoln Star Sun Sep 25, 1910 September 24, 1910
Nebraska News
WANT GRAVE YARD

Winnebago Indians Ask Uncle Sam to Provide Common
Burying Ground for Deceased Tribesmen.
 (Special to The Star.)

Winnebago, Neb., Sept 24.-- It is the present intention
of the Winnebago Indians to ask congress to furnish them
with a cemetery to which can be removed all of their dead.
In the years that have passed since the Winnebagoes came
to Wisconsin, they have buried their dead close by where
their teepees stood when the angel of death passed by.
Selecting the highest and most sightly hill in that
neighborhood, the mourners would proceed to bury the
deceased, and the result has been graves all over the
reservation.
   This was all very well when the land on the reservation
was counted as worth little. But, now, when years of
bountiful crops have shown the fertility of the soil in
Thurston county to be second to that of no other county
in the state, there is a desire on the part of the
Indians to cultivate these hills.
   Of course it would be sacrilege to plow up these graves
of the old Indians, and so the members of the tribe want
a common burial ground. They are willing to take up the
bodies of their dead and bury them again in the new 
ground if Uncle Same will provide it.
   It has been proposed that the government purchase the
hill which is now known all over this country as Flag
Pole hill. This is one of the sightliest locations in all
the country. The eye can wander over thousands of acres,
stretching from the Missouri river on the east to 
beyond the town of Winnebago on the west. Already dozens
of graves occupy this hill, and the promoters of the plan
for a single burying ground declare that all the Winnebagoes
will be content if their dead can only rest on Flag Pole
hill. 
   The Nebraska Winnebagoes are complaining bitterly
because farmers in Minnesota have plowed up the graves of
their ancestors who were buried there before the tribe
was sent to Nebraska.

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