Indian Village Folklore

No tale attaches to this ground in any carrier reached

Folklore needs a teller, and this ground's tellers were looked for by name. The county's great clipping record — Jeanne Denham's collection of thirty years of local-history files, eighty-one boxes now at The History Museum — has an online finding aid; searched in full as fetched, it holds no Indian Village entry, no town file, no plat file. The public library's local-history and Michiana Memory material returned no item naming the town. No pre-1990 Tribune coverage naming the town was found at web strength, in which a legend, a haunting, a buried-treasure tale or a naming story might have travelled. The neighbourhood's own written memory — Post's Gleanings of Clay Township (1973), in the excerpts Corson quotes — tells of Roseland's naming and of farms and barns around the town's ground, and attaches no tale to the town itself. The finding is therefore printed as a tested negative at the strength reached: no folklore of Indian Village was located. It is not a proof that no tale was ever told in its sixty-three households — the Denham boxes themselves were not searched in person, and the subscription newspaper archives were not accessed; those are the settlers, named's note.