Indian Campsite

I. Indian Campsite-Leo Gauderman pasture:

 

On the east side of the Lake Juanita are where large numbers of Indians camped for many years. Quite a few relics have been found here through the years but only these tepee rings are left of many that have been here. These rings of stones were used to hold down the edge of wigwams.

A general camp ground evidently was maintained at Lake Juanita, possibly for centuries, but the findings do not warrant that an ancient village site ever existed at that point. Pieces of flint, crushed bone tipi rings are quite numerous. The boulder-ring effigies are undisturbed. More than likely they were buried by soil erosion hundreds of years ago. During the late dust storms they have been unearthed to the present generation. This particular field has been under cultivation for possibly 40 years. The owners did now know of the boulder-rings until in the 1930s. The dust storms removed the soil to a depth of from a few inches to two or more feet in places.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 395