Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — SOME OF “LITTLE TURTLE’S” MEN. [ARTICLE]

SOME OF “LITTLE TURTLE’S” MEN.

Monticello Herald: Workmen in a gravel pit near Yeoman recently unearthed eight human skeletons in,

different positions, indicating that the bodies to which they belonged had been hastily buried. With each skeleton was found the breastbone or plate of a small turtle perforated with three small holes. It is surmised that the spot was the scene of an Indian battle, and that the fallen braves were followers of “Little Turtle,” the one-eyed* prophet who precipitated the battle of Tippecanoe in the absence of Tecumseh.