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The checklist's archaeology statement includes the burial question; the answer for this ground is a documented negative, and the valley's one camp cemetery stands across the line
No burial ground, cemetery or mound is documented on this ground in any published source this build has reached — the negative entered in Before the City and re-run here against the same record, with the same result. The absence is itself bounded: published archaeology for the upland is nearly nonexistent, the state site file is closed, and a negative in the published record is not a negative in the ground. Cyrus Thomas's mound survey of 1887, the era's systematic count, reports no mound on the neighbouring townsite either, and the one earthwork-like feature the valley's early record does describe — the corn hills at the rapids — is agriculture, as the archaeology article states. That is the whole of the mound and burial record for this ground, and this section will not stretch it.
At boundary size, one sentence of the valley's burial record belongs in this section because the staying band's dead are part of its course. Buechner's account of the band places its cemetery "on a high knoll in section 22… not far from the west bank of the St. Joseph," near Pokagon's village in southeastern Bertrand Township, Berrien County — the ground where the band that stayed buried its dead through the removal era, on Michigan soil, above the river its villages faced. It is printed here in her words' substance and at her strength, without elaboration, because a band's cemetery is not a curiosity; and the record classes that could say more about this ground's own pre-contact dead — the 1939 WPA-compiled list of grave plots in St.
Sources: Before the City — the burial and mound negative for this ground, and Buechner, The Pokagons (1933), the band's cemetery on the knoll in section 22 of Bertrand Township, as carried there; Cyrus Thomas, mound survey (1887), by way of the Mishawaka archaeology record; University of Notre Dame Archives, Saint Joseph County Records (SJO) — the 1829 field survey and the 1939 grave-plot list named as records, contents not dug.