der evang.

Brueder_, p.

60.
[97-1] Hawkins, _Sketch of the Creek Country_, p.75.Lapham and Pidgeon mention that in the State of Wisconsin many low mounds are found in the form of a cross with the arms directed to the cardinal points.

They contain no remains.

Were they not altars built to the Four Winds?
In the mythology of the Dakotas, who inhabited that region, the winds were always conceived as birds, and for the cross they have a native name literally signifying "the musquito hawk spread out" (Riggs, _Dict.