Cherokee Indian Legend of Fairies or Little People

Now and Long Ago-A History of the Marion County Area, 1969

  

   Another God invoked in the hunting songs is Tsu´l’kalû´, or “Slanting Eyes,” a giant hunter who lives in one of the great mountains of the Blue Ridge and owns all the game. Others are the Little Men, probably the two Thunder boys; the Little People, the fairies who live in the rock cliffs; and even the De´tsata, a diminutive sprite who holds the place of our Puck. One unwritten formula, which could not be obtained correctly by dictation, was addressed to the “Red-Headed Woman, whose hair hangs down to the ground.”

Cherokee Indian Legends of an Ancient Giant Race

Cherokee Indian Legends of an Ancient Giant Race

Now and Long Ago-A History of the Marion County Area, 1969
   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.

A Giant Human Skeleton is Uncovered in Browntown, West Virginia

A Giant Human Skeleton is Uncovered in Browntown, West Virginia

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, April 5, 1933

GIANTS SKELETON
Found in a River Bank - Tomahawk at His Side
Browntown, West Virginia April 5  A remarkable discovery was made by Hary Berry, a teamster, near the wharf landing.  The recent flood had washed away a portion of the bank at that point and exposed to view a  The skeleton, which when dug out of the bank was found to be of enormous size. The skeleton was evidently that of an Indian.  A pipe and tomahawk were found by his side.  The skeleton is in a fair state of preservation and is 14 feet in length.  The skull, jaws, and teeth of the red man were well preserved.

Giant Iroquois Remains Uncovered in Mount Morris, New York Burial Mound

Giant Iroquois Remains Uncovered in Mount Morris, New York Burial Mound

History of Livingston County, New York, 1881
When Jesse Stanley came to Mount Morris in 1811, an Indian mound, nearly a hundred feet in diameter and from 8 to 10 feet high, covered the site of the late General Mills' residence. The mound had long been crowned by a great tree, which had recently fallen under the ax, the stump remaining, though much weather-beaten. Deacon Stanley was told that when freshly cut it disclosed a hundred and thirty concentric circles or yearly growths. About the year 1820, the mound was removed, and, in its removal, arrowheads, a brass kettle and knives were thrown out. A number of skeletons were also disinterred. Among the bones was a human skeleton of enormous size, the jaw-bone of which was so large that Adam Holtslander placed it, mask-like, over his own chin and jaw, although he was the largest man in the settlement, and his face was in proportion to the rest of his body. Metal, in the form of rude medals, a pipe, and other articles, were picked out of the earth thrown from the excavation.

8 Giant Sioux Indians Buried in the Form of a Cross in Missouri Mound

8 Giant Sioux Indians Buried in the Form of a Cross in  a Missouri  Indian Mound

The Tarleton Cross in Ohio was constructed by the Hopewell Sioux.  The Sioux occupied the Ohio Valley fior almost 2,000 years before being expelled in 535 A.D.  Mound and burial types would reemerge to the west, in what would be known as the historic  Sioux homelands

The cross was symbolic of the Sun deity for the ancient Sioux Hopewell mound builders. 

The Southeast Missourian, Dec, 27, 1934
8 Giant Skeletons in Missouri Mound; Light on Past May Be Shed
   Springfield, Dec, 27 - Discovery of eight giant human skeletons arranged in four layers so tha each pair formed a cross, in a shallow Indian mound near here apparently sheds new light on the religious customs of prehistoric tribes who once inhabited the Ozarks,
     Rev. S.P.Newberry, Springeild archaeologists believed it highly probable that the crosses formed by the skeletons were of religious significance.
     "The Indian cross," he explained, "has always indicated a place of worship,  In this particular case it seems particular a reasonable supposition that the eight skeletons were those of the high priests of some cult and their attendants.
   It was the custom of some tribes to sacrifice a priest's attendants when the priest died, and to bury them with him. In the crook of an arm of one of the skeletons was found an ancient stone sacrificial bowl, with markings which were exactly like four strange idols recently discovered by Mr. Newberry in the Coleman cavern north of Springfield.