Also, mounds will not have large rocks or debris on them. Mounds could be built marking the equinox, for a ceremony or for a special deity, Young said.Īlthough many mounds look like they could just be part of the landscape, Young said some can be identified based on their location along known native trails. Big mounds could take up to a year or more." About 50 to 60 people would make a mound in about two days. "These were built by Adena and Hopewell tribes, mound builders. "Mounds were built close to the village or an important campsite about 2,000 years ago," he said. Near Wooster Lake in Ingleside is a park with many mounds. He pointed to mounds in Antioch, Round Lake, Fox Lake and Spring Grove.
"You can usually see pits where they borrowed the dirt from," Young said. This began Young's lifelong tendency to stumble upon native history.Īs he gave a tour of some of the mounds he's found in Lake County, Young said they were usually made with baskets of dirt. "I stood still as a stone until the eagle was done with the rabbit, screeched and flew circling over me." At the end of his walk that day, he found an arrowhead at his feet. "I looked for a month and a half and never found one," Young said.īut, one day while he was out searching for arrowheads, he discovered an eagle eating a rabbit. His father told him no, because someone could get hurt, but said he could go look for his own arrowheads if he wanted them. Little Young asked his dad if he could have some arrowheads to make bows and arrows for his cowboys-and-indian games.
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When Young, of Oglala Lakota ancestry, was growing up on a farm east of Antioch, his father had a box full of arrowheads he'd found while working the farm. He was given the name Kanonozo by the Potowatomi, which means ‘blessed by the eagle.” Young, of Antioch, has discovered almost 400 native mounds in Lake County and is an honorary member of two native tribes. Invisible to the untrained eye, small hills could be mounds made by ancient native people, and tree branches could have pointed the way to trails, said Steve Young, Lake County’s Native American history expert. In backyards, parks, farmland and along the sides of highways all over Lake County are traces of the Native American history made more than 2,000 years ago.
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