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Holocaust of Giants:

The Great Smithsonian Cover-up

Noted Native American author and professor of law

emeritus, Vine Deloria, writes in a personal

communication:



It's probably better that so few of the ruins and

remains were tied in with the Smithsonian because they

give good reason to believe the ending of the Indiana

Jones movie-a great warehouse where the real secrets

of earth history are buried.



Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly

sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly

interpreting the North American past as devoid of

anything unusual in the way of great cultures

characterized by a people of unusual demeanor. The

great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the

nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a

one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have

been spirited. This door and the contents of its vault

are virtually sealed off to any but government

officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even

sought by these officials concerning the deep past.



The first hint we had about the possible existence of

an actual race of tall, strong, and intellectually

sophisticated people, was in researching old township

and county records. Many of these were quoting from

old diaries and letters that were combined, for

posterity, in the 1800s from diaries going back to the

1700s. Says Vine in this understanding:



Some of these old county and regional history books

contain real gems because the people were not

subjected to a rigid indoctrination about evolution

and were astonished about what they found and honestly

reported it.





The title pages of the early county and pioneer

history books often included phrases like "CAREFULLY

WRITTEN AND COMPILED" and "LEST WE FORGET."





Some time before archaeology came to subscribe the

general public to its view of prehistory-generations

prior to Darwin's troublesome theory-the pioneers

thought that some of the earthworks were as ancient as

could be concurrent with human habitation in America.

Some among the early settlers exercised their pens

assured that the earthworks were not built by the

direct ancestry of the native people living in the

historical period, but rather were constructed in a

more remote era encompassing a different social order.

They compared the "Mound Builders," with the

"Indians," clearly discerning the former as belonging

to an earlier time-possessing a different fate or

destiny from the latter.



Evidence for the occupation of this region before the

appearance of the red man and the white race is to be

found in almost every part of the county, as well as

through the northwest generally. In removing the

gravel bluffs, which are numerous and deep, for the

construction and repair of roads, and in excavating

cellars, hundreds of human skeletons, some of them of

giant form, have been found. A citizen of Marion

County estimates that there were about as many human

skeletons in the knolls of Marion County as there are

white inhabitants at present!



The History of Marion County, Ohio

(complied from past accounts, published in 1883)



Mastodonic remains are occasionally unearthed, and,

from time to time, discoveries of the remains of

Indian settlements are indicated by the appearance of

gigantic skeletons, with the high cheek bones,

powerful jaws and massive frames peculiar of the red

man, who left these as the only record with which to

form a clew to the history of past ages.



The History of Brown County, Ohio

(complied from past accounts, published in 1883)





Group of Mounds in Brown County, Ohio.





She said also that three skeletons were found at the

mouth of the Paw Paw Creek many years later, while Nim

(Nimrod) Satterfield was justice of the peace. Jim

Dean and some men were digging for a bridge foundation

and found these bones at the lower end of the old

buffalo wallow. She thought it was Dr. Kidwell, of

Fairmont, who examined them and said they were very

old, perhaps thousands of years old. She said that

when the skeletons were exposed to the weather for a

few days, their bones turned black and began to

crumble, that Squire Satterfield had them buried in

the Joliffe graveyard (Rivesville). All these

skeletons, she said, were measured, and found to be

about eight feet long.



Now and Long Ago-A History of the Marion County Area

by Glen Lough (1969)

(This citation on West Virginia courtesy Dave Cain.)



Another of many examples, this one, collected by James

Mooney (1861-1921), tells of the visit of very tall

people from the west:



James Wafford, of the western Cherokee, who was born

in Georgia in 1806, says that his grandmother, who

must have been born about the middle of the last

century, told him that she had heard from the old

people that long before her time a party of giants had

once come to visit the Cherokee. They were nearly

twice as tall as common men, and had their eyes set

slanting in their heads, so that the Cherokee called

them Tsunil´ kalu´, "the Slant-eyed people," because

they looked like the giant hunter Tsul´ kalu´. They

said that these giants lived far away in the direction

in which the sun goes down. The Cherokee received them

as friends, and they stayed some time, and then

returned to their home in the west...





Dancing Figures Found on a Copper Plate in Union

County, Illinois.



This kind of recorded tradition did not start with

Mooney, rather beginning early in American history.

During the Colonial and post-Colonial era, the

information seekers were keen on gathering as much

knowledge of the forgotten past as feasible through

native sources. Some of it was woven into romantic

tales including verse, but the main of it went into

records, which, like the accumulation of earth and

debris over ancient village sites, became buried in

the musty stacks of old libraries-considered to have

no real "substance" in the emerging field of the white

man's science.



Of the very early history of the region which now

embraces Lake County but little can be written. The

Mound Builders had occupied it and passed away,

leaving no written language and but little even as

tradition... These mounds were quite numerous...

Excavations...have revealed the crumbling bones of a

mighty race. Samuel Miller, who has resided in the

county since 1835, is authority for the statement that

one skeleton which he assisted in unearthing was a

trifle more than eight feet in length, the skull being

correspondingly large, while many other skeletons

measured at least seven feet...



Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of

Lake County

Edited by Newton Bateman, LL.D. and Paul Selby, A.M.

(1902)



From the outset of North American archaeology, no

federally sponsored concern has researched and

collected evidence specifically emphasizing the

existence of unusually tall Native Americans in

prehistoric, and even in historic times. There are

reasons for this oversight, though in hindsight it has

placed limits on our overview of prehistory. Because

there were only occasional people of large stature

born among the light-skinned, European races, numbers

of giants were far from anticipated in America.

Scientists in Europe, in case-by-case studies,

declared their giants to have been victims of

pituitary disorder. Another reason was that when the

private citizenry in the U.S. unearthed the bones of

very tall and strongly constructed people, and when

these disinterments were recorded, rarely was any

comparison made with sites of similar contents. It was

still a sort of wilderness in many rural areas right

until the middle 1800s. In this, each discovery was

sort of "un iqu



There were mounds situated in the eastern part of the

village of Conneaut and an extensive burying-ground

near the Presbyterian church, which appear to have had

no connection with the burying-places of the Indians.

Among the human bones found in the mounds were some

belonging to men of gigantic structure. Some of the

skulls were of sufficient capacity to admit the head

of an ordinary man, and jaw bones that might have been

fitted on over the face with equal facility; the other

bones were proportionately large. The burying-ground

referred to contained about four acres, and with the

exception of a slight angle in conformity with the

natural contour of the ground was in the form of an

oblong square. It appeared to have been accurately

surveyed into lots running from north to south, and

exhibited all the order and propriety of arrangement

deemed necessary to constitute Christ ian



Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes

by Henry Howe, LL.D. (1888)



Although not regarded by the government as reliable,

the oral traditions of the native people in the

eastern U.S. aver of the existence of possibly two

races of giants, one supplanting the other by violent

means. Here we have the first inkling of some very

remote prehistory preserved, through the tradition of

the Chippewa, Sandusky, and Tawa tribes, (members of

the Algonquin language group), the existence of giant,

bearded men.



In this connection I would say that Mr. Jonathan

Brooks, now living in town, stated to me, that his

father, Benjamin Brooks, who lived with the Indians

fourteen years, and was well-acquainted with their

language and traditions, told him and others that it

was a tradition of the Indians that the first tribe

occupying this whole country, was a black-bearded

race, very large in size, and subsequently a red

bearded race or tribe came and killed or drove off all

the black beards, as they called them.



The Firelands Pioneer (1858)



Offsetting the carefully recorded diaries of the rural

folk, there were popular writers who creatively

developed the more contemporary histories and folk

legends, leaving to cursory treatment the deeper

accounts of North American antiquities. These authors,

while having captured the essence of the public

perception of the noble native tradition, were not

reconciled to the antique body of legend. The pens of

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) and Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow (1807-1882) relate virtually nothing of the

tall ones. Native Americans, as we know, were

discouraged from writing, although some, such as David

Cusick, circumvented the bias using Christian names.

Fortunately, early missionary concerns gathered oral

tradition from the tribal elders concerning men of

giant stature.



But even the most informative or entertaining accounts

could not instill enough respect for the native people

to put an end to the further destruction of the sacred

sites. The attitude of the white race in general

toward the red race was an abomination, totally

lacking in mercy and compassion. Many of the Native

American skulls were compared with European skulls,

but selectively so as to depict the current native

populace as being of inferior intelligence. Almost

without resistance, the black seeds of racial bias

were forming in the uncorrupted soil of prehistoric

interpretation. Take for example the words of an

important government official and popular writer,

Henry Schoolcraft (1793-1864):



The Indian has a low, bushy brow, beneath which a

dull, sleepy, half-closed eye seems to mark the

ferocious passions that are dormant within. The acute

angles of the eyes seldom present the obliquity so

common in the Malays and the Mongolians. The color of

the eye is almost uniformly a tint between black and

grey; but even in young persons it seldom has the

brightness, or expresses the vivacity, so common in

the more civilized races.



Bureau of Indian Affairs (1852)



Schoolcraft, who himself married a half-Indian woman,

was apparently predisposed to labeling the native

people in general as inferior. This kind of ridiculous

prejudice underscored the tone for the unbridled

continuation of the earthwork debacle. The result of

this is accurately reflected in how archaeology was

organized more than one hundred years ago, and may be

summed up in the policy of Joseph Henry, first

secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Says Henry

in 1846: "The collection of data should precede

theorizing..." Unfortunately, the collection of data

seemed to have no end, and any subsequent theorizing

was (and is) in a state of transience. The

Smithsonian, playing a sort of leading role in the

massive undertaking attempting to cast light on the

inscrutable prehistory of the United States,

inadvertently collected far too many relics to ever

analyze in a comprehensive sense. Estimates of the

number of moundworks in Ohio alone-at the end of the

Colonial period- top



Differing only in the professionalism somewhat absent

from the previous seventy years of ghoulish quests,

Henry's mandate dictated emphasis on the creation of

an inclusive system of excavation, recording, and

description. Any analysis that followed had to be

based upon this criterion. But competent analysis of

anomalies rarely (if ever) came from the Smithsonian

and other institutions formally engaged in the

practice of exhumation. Given this understanding, it

is no wonder that the Smithsonian is believed by

knowledgeable people to be actively stymieing research

that would produce a more enlightened view of American

prehistory.



There is, however, some compensation for this

oversight in that the Smithsonian, like the Peabody,

and the Carnegie shortly thereafter, faithfully upheld

Henry's mandate to detail, as was feasible, their

mound "explorations." However, the present-day

inaccessibility of the bones and objects these people

removed for future study is a reflection and symptom

of the proposed "oversight." One thing that pleased us

in this research effort was the fact that there were

many skeletons of gigantic frame discovered and

reported by the Smithsonian, boosting the validity and

value of the old township diaries, as well as the

native legends. Some of these are presented below.



A Brief History of the Museum





The Smithsonian Institution, easily the world's

largest museum complex, began from the generous gift

of James Smithson, an English scientist, in 1829.

Believed born a bastard (especially in the eyes of his

later detractors), Smithson was a "diligent young

student," receiving a Master of Arts from Pembroke

College, Oxford, in 1786. He became a distinguished

scientist. The gentle man passed away in 1829,

bequeathing his fortune to nephew James Henry

Hungerford with the stipulation that if this man died

without an heir, the remainder of the fortune would go

to the United States. It seems he felt that the United

States was the future of Britain. Perhaps Smithson saw

the "New World" as fertile, worthy, intellectual

territory.



Hungerford died in 1835. Although there was some

controversy in the interim, the finding of the

Smithsonian, based upon the more than a half

million-dollar gift, took place officially in 1846.

His legacy to the American people was, in his own

words, "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge."

Since that time, the museum's collections have

increased considerably, with problems in the

cataloging and location of stored finds developing due

to changing standards of administrations over the last

150 years. Analogous to the Vatican with its antique

cache of confiscated, problematic treasures, the booty

of the Holy See may pale in comparison to the

Smithsonian's boatload of diffuse evidence. Pity of it

is that Smithson's request has gone into a different

mode of interpretation. Instead of diffusing

knowledge, it has unwittingly become confused with the

problem of sprawling storage.



Powell and Thomas

Grave a, a stone sepulcher, 2½ feet wide, 8 feet

long, and 2 feet deep, was formed by placing steatite

slabs on edge at the sides and ends, and others across

the top. The bottom consisted simply of earth hardened

by fire. It contained the remains of a single

skeleton, lying on its back, with the head east. The

frame was heavy and about seven feet long. The head

rested on a thin copper plate ornamented with

impressed figures...



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(Cyrus Thomas' investigations of Etowah)





Plat of the Etowah Group, Bartow County, Georgia.

Grave A (found in the largest mound of the group)

contained a seven-foot skeleton having a heavy frame.





In 1882, after some thirty-six years of growth and

sound management, Smithsonian executive John Wesley

Powell (of Grand Canyon exploration fame 1869-1872),

hired Cyrus Thomas. Powell wanted this man to head up

the fieldwork for the Smithsonian's newly created

Bureau of Ethnology, specifically the Eastern Mound

Division. Thomas was a minister and an entomologist

whose broadened interests included archaeology. He

was, inotherwords, a bible-advocating, insect-adept

archaeologist who believed in the mystery of a lost

race at the time of his being recruited. Powell, who

was much in sympathy with the plight of Native

Americans, having lived among them for a length of

time, believed that there was no lost or mysterious

race of mound builders. He desired to credit the

downtrodden native people with the worthy and gentle

arts associated with the ancient mound building

societies. Subsequently, and in light of other politic

considerations marking the era, Powell sought to enact

th ese



There was apparently an important decision made at

this time concerning the facilitation of an enveloping

theory-so necessary to create order where chaos

loomed. Before discharging a book, one logically

creates an outline to guide one's thoughts. This was

to become a hierarchical arrangement that would decide

the angle of vision for the categorizing of the finds

that would be made. On one hand, the belief that

others discovered North America before Columbus (such

as Phoenician, Egyptian, Hebraic, Greek, Roman, Celt,

Scandinavian, or even Asian mariners) was explored. On

the other hand, the idea of the continent having been

isolated from outside influences was put on the table.

It was perhaps because of Powell's deference to the

native kinship that the latter idea-i.e., screening

out any extra-continental visitors-was adopted.

Needless to say, this was an extraordinary assumption,

and one that has affected decision-making right until

the present day. On the positive side it



Powell's decision regarding isolation was in reality a

two-edged sword. While it was a meaningful step that

fostered a meager though important harmonic between

the federal government and the native people, it was

regrettably based upon a false notion. An example of

its contradiction is found right in the 12th Annual

Report itself. Again and again Thomas and his

operatives came up with anomalous evidence directly

questioning Powell's sweeping suppositions.



Cave burials occur in this district in the following

counties: In Grayson, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, Warren,

and Fayette counties; Kentucky; Smith, White, Warren,

Giles, Marion, and Fentress counties, Tennessee, and

Bartow county, Georgia. These localities lie mostly in

a belt extending in a north and south direction

through the center of the district.







In most of these caves, both in Kentucky and

Tennessee, the bodies appear to have been laid on the

floor of the cave, sometimes in beds of ashes,

sometimes on a pavement of flat stones. There are,

however, some instances in which the bodies have been

found incased in stone slabs, and afterwards imbedded

in clay or ashes. In Smith and Warren counties,

Tennessee, and in Warren and Fayette counties,

Kentucky, the flesh of the bodies was preserved and

the hair was yellow and of fine texture. In some cases

the bodies were enveloped in several thicknesses of

coarse cloth with an outer wrapping of deer skin. Some

of the bodies were wrapped in a kind of cloth made of

bark fiber, into which feathers were woven in such a

manner as to form a smooth surface. In two cases the

bodies, placed in a sitting or squatting posture, were

incased in baskets. In one of the caves in Smith

county th



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(explorations in the Tennessee District)



Armed with a self-created doctrine powered by ample

funding, and with a little help later from the one-way

door to the Smithsonian's inaccessible catacombs, the

years that followed saw Powell and his underling

nearly succeed in the obliteration of the last notions

of the legendary, mysterious, and antique class of

mound building people, and for that matter, any people

that didn't fit into the mold of his theory. Did

Powell intentionally overlook some of the archaeology

so as to focus on his own special agenda?



Powell and his associates at the Bureau were quite

certain that people had arrived in the Americas only

sometime after the first Egyptian dynasty-less than

4500 years ago! They also believed that the

Mississippi Valley was sufficiently isolated from the

Ohio Valley to warrant the simultaneous flourishing of

quite distinct cultures over a long period. Since

carbon dating was not yet discovered, Thomas used

stratigraphic (after Lyell) analysis and, following

the rest of the mandate, included detailed record

keeping and documentation whenever appropriate. His

findings were broadly accepted, and are still

referenced.



Underneath the layer of shells the earth was very dark

and appeared to be mixed with vegetable mold to the

depth of 1 foot. At the bottom of this, resting on the

original surface of the ground, was a very large

skeleton lying horizontally at full length. Although

very soft, the bones were sufficiently distinct to

allow of careful measurement before attempting to

remove them. The length from the base of the skull to

the bones of the toes was found to be 7 feet 3 inches.

It is probable, therefore, that this individual when

living was fully 7½ feet high. At the head lay some

small pieces of mica and a green substance, probably

the oxide of copper, though no ornament or article of

copper was discovered.



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(explorations in Roane County, Tennessee)



But Thomas' time was limited because of the large

territory he was to explore. Under such working

conditions, anomalies were put aside for future

research-to be, as it has turned out, forgotten.

Thomas was forced to rely on the accounts of

operatives in many cases. Evidently, some of these

people discerned between "Indian" burials and the

burials of the Mound Builders, perhaps challenging the

patience of Powell.



No. 5, the largest of the group was carefully

examined. Two feet below the surface, near the apex,

was a skeleton, doubtless an intrusive Indian

burial... Near the original surface, 10 or 12 feet

from the center, on the lower side, lying at full

length on its back, was one of the largest skeletons

discovered by the Bureau agents, the length as proved

by actual measurement being between 7 and 8 feet. It

was clearly traceable, but crumbled to pieces

immediately after removal from the hard earth in which

it was encased....



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(mounds at Dunleith, Illinois)





Mound Group, Dunleith, Illinois.

"Near the original surface, 10 or 12 feet from the

center, on the lower side, lying at full length on its

back, was one of the largest skeletons discovered by

the Bureau agents, the length as proved by actual

measurement being between 7 and 8 feet."





Regarding the problem of "intrusive" Indian burials,

what kind of a time gap were these men looking at

between the original burials and the later ones? As

his agents uncovered the physical evidence for

powerful men of towering stature, Thomas held the

position that any and all skeletal remains represented

the direct ancestry of the present day people. Was it

not plausible to consider an extended "family" or

hierarchical group of very tall folk who served with

the people? Were they selective enough in their sexual

associations to appear, overall, as a race with its

own peculiarities and even physical characteristics?

The findings that didn't fit in to the guideline

established by his superior were summarily recorded

and forgotten by Thomas-a legacy we have inherited

today.



An old Indian mound has been opened on the farm of

Harrison Robinson, four miles East of Jackson, Ohio,

and two skeletons of extraordinary size and a great

quantity of trinkets have been removed. Some years ago

a party of relic hunters, supposed to have been sent

out in the interest of the Archeological society

visited the Robinson farm, and after a few days search

removed a great collection of stone hatchets, beads

and bracelets, which were packed and shipped to an

Eastern institute, and until this recent accidental

discovery it was supposed that everything had been

removed by the relic hunters. It is thought by many

that more relics are to be found and preparations are

being made for a through investigation.



The Adair County News

January 5, 1897

(Kentucky)



What has become of all the evidence? Again and again,

only a single long skeleton or two was found among

those of normal size. The understanding of tall,

ruling chiefs and their wives was not developed at

all, as is evident in these examples.



The other, situated on the point of a commanding

bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter

and about 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted in

sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed

skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The

earth of the main portion of this mound was a very

fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was

everywhere, to a depth of 2 to 4 feet, as full of

human skeletons as could be stowed away in it, even to

two and three tiers. Among these were a number of

bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in

confusion and probably from scaffolds or other

localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than

7 feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium

size and many of them much decayed...



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(Pike County, Illinois)



No. 11 is now 35 by 40 feet at the base and 4 feet

high. In the center, 3 feet below the surface, was a

vault 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. In the bottom of

this, among the decayed fragments of bark wrappings,

lay a skeleton fully seven feet long, extended at full

length on the back, head west. Lying in a circle above

the hips were fifty-two perforated shell disks about

an inch in diameter and one-eighth of an inch thick.



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(Kanawha County, West Virginia)





Spring Hill Inclosure, Kanawha County, West Virginia.

In the bottom of Mound 11 (upper left) was found a

skeleton "fully seven feet long."





Largest in the collective series of mounds, the Great

Smith Mound yielded at least two large skeletons, but

at different levels of its deconstruction by Thomas'

agents. It was 35 feet in height and 175 feet in

diameter, and was constructed in at least two stages,

according to the report. The larger of the two

skeletons represented a man conceivably approaching

eight feet in height when living.



At a depth of 14 feet, a rather large human skeleton

was found, which was in a partially upright position

with the back against a hard clay wall...All the bones

were badly decayed, except those of the left wrist,

which had been preserved by two heavy copper

bracelets...







Nineteen feet from the top the bottom of this debris

was reached, where, in the remains of a bark coffin, a

skeleton measuring 7½ feet in length and 19 inches

across the shoulders, was discovered. It lay on the

bottom of the vault stretched horizontally on the

back, head east, arms by the sides... Each wrist was

encircled by six heavy copper bracelets...Upon the

breast was a copper gorget...length, 3½ inches;

greatest width 3¾ inches...



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(Kanawha County, West Virginia)





A Section of the Great Smith Mound, Kanawha County,

West Virginia.

This cone-shaped mound rose 35 feet high and measured

175 feet in diameter at its base. The interior of the

mound contained a vault made of timber measuring 12

feet by 13 feet. It was positioned within the mound 20

feet above surface level.





The pressure of the time schedule doubtless made it

inconvenient to seriously consider the possibility of

an ancient lineage of leaders taking the form of very

tall people. The fact of gigantic stature never

settled in as a clue to a greater mystery, and the

evidences of very tall, ruggedly built men

vanished-and often enough into the Smithsonian's

temporary charnel house of pre-Columbian miscellany.



Three feet above...the skeleton of a large, strongly

built man lay extended at full length with the face

up, the head toward the east...The skull was obtained

almost entire. Under it were thirteen water-worn

quartz pebbles. The femur measured 18½ inches...



12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1891

(published in 1894)

(Union County, Mississippi)





Group of mounds in Union County,

Mississippi.





A femur (thigh bone) exceeding eighteen inches would

indicate a man of above average height, perhaps

approaching seven feet. Femurs exceeding twenty inches

have been found however.



Though hindsight is said to be 20/20, Thomas'

methodology was little better than a

government-sanctioned dissolution of the sacred burial

places. He dismantled the sanctuaries and charnel

houses with the fervor of a man whose first priority

was to impress his employer. From Florida to

Nebraska-including twenty-three states and Canada's

Manitoba region-over the next seven years he and his

agents worked like men possessed of a deadline.



A large Indian mound near the town of Gastersville,

[Gastonville?-Ed.] Pa., has recently been opened and

examined by a committee of scientists sent out from

the Smithsonian Institute. At some depth from the

surface a kind of vault was found in which was

discovered the skeleton of a giant measuring seven

feet two inches. His hair was coarse and jet black,

and hung to the waist, the brow being ornamented with

a copper crown. The skeleton was remarkably well

preserved...On the stones which covered the vault were

carved inscriptions, and these when deciphered, will

doubtless lift the veil that now shrouds the history

of the race of people that at one time inhabited this

part of the American continent. The relics have been

carefully packed and forwarded to the Smithsonian

Institute, and they are said to be the most

interesting collection ever found in the United

States.



American Antiquarian, 7:52, 1885



Could this special burial have been another kingly

individual? In these increasingly hasty intrusions

into the native burial grounds' inherent sanctity, the

holocaust delivered its zenith under the officialdom

action of former Union Major Powell. This man who in

his youth had lived among the "Indians," somehow was

insensitive to the sanctuary of their graveyards. But

others came later to do a fair share of damage as

well, all in the name of information gathering. The

prehistory of eastern North America is not what we

have been asked to accept from the efforts Cyrus

Thomas, nor from the subsequent authorities who based

so much of their work upon his, and the reason is

worth repeating-many or most of the oldest mounds and

subterranean burial acreages were promptly destroyed

long before any focused "scientific" effort came on

the scene.



Apart from the disregard of the settlers' records, the

other part of the problem is the labyrinthine

mausoleum that is the Smithsonian bone and artifact

collection. In sum, we today are deprived of the real

knowledge of the more ancient lineage. The early

settlers observed that the giants of old may have

passed on their grand stature to the later native

people, for there were individuals among their later

progression who were of a size and build that goes

beyond our current notions of Native American

physicality.



The Telling of the Bones

It is difficult not to understand the probability of

an elite lineage of tall men and women who propagated

their own genetic inheritance. These people lived,

worked, and bred together. Were their marriages

arranged to ensure the continuance of the grand

stature in roles of leadership and protection? In his

classic Red Earth, White Lies, Vine says:



From talking with elders of several tribes, my

understanding is that the Indians were and are

describing people of more than average height. In

fact, some elders as a routine matter have reported

that the Indians themselves were much larger and

taller.



The question has been raised asking whether there was

giant stature among the Native American people in

earlier historic times. From Hardesty's History of

Monroe County, Ohio, we discovered this:



He further told me of the killing of a big Indian at

Buckchitawa, about the time of the settlement at

Marietta. The Indians had a white prisoner whom they

forced to decoy boats to the shore. A small boat was

descending the river containing white people, when

this prisoner was placed under the bank to tell those

in the boat that he had escaped captivity, and to come

to the shore and take him in. The Indians were

concealed, but the big Indian stuck his head out from

behind a large tree, when it was pierced by a bullet

from the gun of the steersman of the boat. The Indians

cried out Wetzel, Wetzel, and fled. This was the last

ever seen of the prisoner. The Indians returned next

day and buried the big Indian, who, he said, was

twenty inches taller than he was, and he was a tall

man. When Chester Bishop was digging a cellar for

Asahel Booth, at Clarington, many years ago, he c ame





The Mound at Marietta Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846.

Howe stated this mound was "of a magnitude and height

which strike the beholder with astonishment." It's

base had a diameter of 115 feet; it's height reached

up 30 feet. It was surrounded by a ditch four feet

deep and fifteen feet wide.





And again this:



A large quantity of human bones was discovered in a

fissure in the limestone near the United States Coast

Guard lighthouse. A crude tomb of black stone slabs,

of a formation not known on the island, was found many

years ago beneath the roots of a huge stump. Eight

skeletons were found, one measuring over seven feet in

height.



Sketches and Stories of the Lake Erie Islands

by Theresa Thorndale, Sandusky (1898)



Some of the settlers and their descendents may have

seen clearly, but the representatives of the

Smithsonian and other sanctioned institutions, in

spite of good intentions, lacked the kind of

thoroughness in their analyses that included a

broadened field of vision. We have felt heartily from

the beginning of this research that the Smithsonian is

the recipient of mandates put into place well over 100

years ago. It is virtually exempt from NAGPRA (Native

American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), for

the reason (say they) of there being too much data to

finish analyzing to prepare for repatriation.



Concealing evidence that conflicts with accepted

theory is common scientific skullduggery. For years

the Smithsonian Institution has been accused of hiding

in storage vaults things it doesn't like. In 1968 two

Neanderthal-like skulls with low foreheads and large

brows were found in Minnesota. As for dating,

University of Minnesota scientists said they were

reluctant to destroy any of the material, although

carbon-14 testing only requires the burning of one

gram of bone. They were sent to the Smithsonian. Later

Dr. Lawrence Angel, curator of physical anthropology

at the institution, said he had no record of the

skulls there, although he was sure they were not lost.

We have a right to wonder whether some professional

scientists mightn't find a really early date for the

bones distressing.



American Indian Myths and Mysteries

Vincent H. Gaddis (1977)



Why distressing? Because no true Neanderthal remains

have ever been recognized by any Federal authorities

as originating on the North American continent, what

to say of the Americas in general. Is there yet today

a conflict between established theory and what has

been physically discovered? Is the "ghost" of Powell

yet haunting the halls of the Museum?



So what is the policy of the Smithsonian? Does the

institution intentionally withhold information? Is the

fact of a race of giant warriors and chieftains

threatening to the closed, internal doctrine of

American archaeology? That there was a race of men and

women possessing an unusually tall and strong

physicality living over an extensive area North

America has become a forgotten fact.



There are other examples, and names like the Gungywamp

Society of Connecticut, Ed Conrad, and others have

bizarre stories to relate about the ineptitude or

simple prejudice of the Smithsonian when dealing with

their materials. In these examples, there is growing

appreciation for an actual cover-up.



Another grotesque twist is the Army Medical Museum's

collection. According to the ABC News special

"Skeletons in the Closet," the United States

government acquired a real interest in Indian corpses.

The Surgeon General, in post-Civil War 1868, requested

that the army collect the skulls, utensils, and

weaponry of Native Americans "as far as you are able

to procure them." According to the report, these were

to be sent to Washington, D.C. as part of a program

that studied the effects of modern bullets and other

weaponry on human bodies. The collection of such

remains, estimated at 4,000, was taken mostly from

grave and battle sites. What was left over became part

of the Smithsonian collection estimated at 18,000

individuals, and this by way of the Army Medical

Museum.



The objects here collected which have not been given,

or acquired by exchange, have been purchased for the

use of the museum by order of the surgeon-general...

There is a skeleton of a giant, who, in life, measured

seven feet, prepared by Auzoux and mounted by

Blanchêne's method, which, if I may use that term, is

really a beauty. It is as white and clean as new

fallen snow, and the brass joints and screws which

keep it together are bright, and of the latest style

and finish...



"The Army Medical Museum in Washington" by Louis

Bagger

Appletons' Journal: A Magazine Of General Literature

Volume 9, Issue 206 (1873)



Today however, bones are no longer as good a source of

information as they once were thought to be, and for

several good reasons. Bone, while composed dominantly

of the metallic calcium, yet is made up of organic

molecules. Depending on moisture and temperature, it

will decay, break down with time, and return to the

condition of the soil after a certain number of

centuries. Bone evidence has created over-emphasis on

certain periods of prehistory, in this region the

so-called "Hopewell" and "Fort Ancient"

(Mississippian) people. Thus, a great proportion of

the Archaic and early Adena bones discovered were

decomposed beyond preservation. Due to a lack of

skeletons other more antique periods have not received

the same kind of recognition save from the better

scholars affecting the interested public's view of the

ancient world. Ironically, the holocaust of giants,

while deadening our sense of the past, may well serve

as a lesson for the future.



Recommended Reading:



Red Earth, White Lies : Native Americans and the Myth

of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Fulcrum Pub;

ISBN: 1555913881; 1997)







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politics of Status Quo at the Smithsonian will hand the scolarly keys to the study of the Past to other nations. Perhaps that is why China and Russia are so active in the archaeology and anthropology fields.



To: vannrox

What color is the sky on your planet?



To: vannrox

Maybe they were hairy too - call them homo Bigfoot.



To: vannrox

Welcome to Cloud Coo-Coo Land where baloney is dished out round the clock. And where on earth did you get the idea that China and Russia "...are so active in the archaeology and anthropolgy fields" ?



To: vannrox

Amazing! What about the giant they found near Piltdown?



To: vannrox

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To: vannrox

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To: vannrox

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To: gcruse

The porn store article was deleted. IT offended some people. Too bad. There was some great sanitary aspects about video handling, and the relationship issues of the proximity of a rental store to the surrounding neighborhood.



To: vannrox

I thought the Giants moved to San Francisco a long time ago. Brooklyn will never be the same, though.



To: yankeedame

"...And where on earth did you get the idea that China and Russia "...are so active in the archaeology and anthropolgy fields" ?..."



The Anthropologal and Archaeology Journals. The amount of studies and research in the Russian and Cinese journals are off the meter! Puts the US to shame. Of course, out west we are too egotistic and myopic to notice.



To: vannrox

The porn store article was deleted. I know. Luckily, as soon as I read

the first paragraph I knew it was

doomed. So I made sure to read

it all before leaving the thread.



To: vannrox



v4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Genesis Chapter 6v4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. Giants are abnormally tall and powerful beings, that actually inhabited the earth in biblical times. There are also mythical giants found in Roman, Greek, and other mythologies. In modern times, persons well above normal height and size, and who excell in brute strength, giants if you will, are often seen in side shows, and are considered freaks of nature.

From time to time, archelogical sites have revealed bones of extinct monsters which show every indication of human origin, as evidenced in one case by a 19-foot skeleton which was unearthed at Lucerne in 1577. In 1456 and again in 1613, human remains were discovered near the Rhone which measured 30-feet in length. Imagine a being 30-feet tall towering over a normal size human of today.

Of at least six references to giants, Goliath, is probably the best known, though the only mention made of him is his appearance as the champion of the Philistines, and his death at the hands of David (I Samuel 17), in circa 1010 B.C. Goliath standing someplace between 9-feet/9-inches and 11-feet/3inches over David looked down mockingly as David said, "This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand," whereupon David smote the giant in the forehead with a single stone from his sling shot. As Goliath lay dead on the ground, David cut off the giant's head.

Is Goliath, and his brother who was also a giant, a myth or Biblical fact? Skeletons recovered in Palestine attest the fact that men as tall as Goliath once lived in the historical reliability of the David-Goliath narrative, adducing contradictions in the account.

The biblical Nephilim giants were the sons of Anak. These giants were fallen ones or monsters of mixed human and angelic birth, not unlike the rebellious Titians of Green mythology. They were exceedingly wicked and displayed such a violent nature that all of their thoughts were evil. Accounts of the Nephilim giants can be found in Genesis 6:4-5 and Numbers 13:33.



To: vannrox

Sounds like that Afro-centric crap...only it's Indians.



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To: skull stomper

A websearch on Biblical Giants will yield some very interesting reading.



To: vannrox

There was a very interesting show on either Discovery channel or The Learning Channel a few nights ago. They had found Europeans that had been mumified in China. They were 2,000 to 4,000 years old. They were tall, had red hair, and had woven clothing from Europe. Gee, I was never taught anything about this in the Publik Skools.



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