Sherman Park Indian Burial Mounds

In these mounds were buried the physical remains of Indians who lived in eastern South Dakota 1600 years ago. Radiocarbon testing established the time of the burials. Known to archaeologists as the Woodland Indians, they moved westward from the eastern forests, changing from deer hunting to the pursuit of buffalo on the vast Dakota grasslands.

As hunters they lived in temporary shelters but left these mounds as permanent monuments to their dead. Later, Dacotah and other Indians roamed this area, also burying their dead in these same mounds.

In 1962 the University of South Dakota excavated the second mound from the east. In it were found the skeletons of four Woodland Indians and a later adult burial. Also found was the skeleton of a horse, probably buried within the last l00 years. Fragments of cooking pots were scattered among the remains of the Woodland Indians.

LOGGING REQUIREMENTS

With your log please attach a photo of yourself, your GPS, your dog or something unique about yourself with the view of the mounds in the background.    Please be respectful of the ancestoral people and stay outside of the fenced in area.

Apologies in advance, if you do not post a picture proving you were there, I will have to delete your log.

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