Footsteps of the Ancestors

[@jezza6575]

The State of Indiana owes this man a thank you for the brilliant and informative videos he produces. I’m a fellow Hoosier myself and I’m grateful for the knowledge and look forward to seeing more of my home state based on your recommendations. Thank you Roger!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you! I love Indiana, and it will always be in my heart!

[@rosebudadkins6803]

I am a Hoosier (LaGrange) so is my husband (Columbia City). I am also a native (Lakota/Eastern Cherokee) Past 23 yrs in Washington State near the Yakama tribe. I sweat, hold ceremonies and powwow with them. I miss Indiana and an elder hoping to return soon. This was well done. Thank you! The ancestors know you and protect you while on their lands. I am also a sky reader. One of my tribal names is Sister Sky. My mail comes addressed to Sister Sky. My mother told me many stories of the Indian battles. Our tribe killed Custer. I’ve been to Greasy Grass (our tribal name) or Little Bighorn. So much blood still cries from the ground. I can hear it. We hang prayer ties and help ghosts finally cross over. So many needed help. R.I.P. all who walked on…. both red & white! ❤️🙏🌹

[@RunningWithScissors765]

Much appreciated. Born and raised here in Marion! (Grant county). I truly appreciate you sharing TRUE history for everyone. And yes the mississinewa is right in my back yard. I love this land. The area has been affected. But the natural beauty is still all around us! Everyone keep searching for answers. They are everywhere

[@nativeamericanaffairs1031]

I was born Native Indiana hidden story's elder our spiritual life remains we are in the air smell listen to grandmother earth 🌎 Day # MAHA

[@donnie1581]

These video's need to be in every state history class here. I've lived here all of my life except for 4 years; most of that time has been within 10 minutes of Mounds State Park. Thank you for these awesome video's!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Donnie! Doing what I can to preserve our history!

[@edwardh1591]

Roger this video is excellent. My friend Kenny Hochsang is one of the foremost experts on the Native American culture in southern Indiana. He used to work with the archeologists. He taught me a lot about the native Americans. I have been to many of these places. I’m sensitive to the spirit realm. I can tell you that many of these places you spoke of the spirits are still there.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I didn’t cover all the Native American places, just scratched the surface, but they each have a spirit about them. I always feel at peace, but that’s not the case with everyone. Some have told me that they feel watched, or were made uncomfortable enough to leave. I have a friend who’s an empath, and they have went along on a few of these filming trips. Some places made them extremely uncomfortable, whereas I felt fine. Then again, I rarely get that “this is a bad place” vibe.

[@edwardh1591]

One of the final Indian massacres happened 3 mile away from my home in the late 1800’s the settlers shot them crossing the patoka river. I was told the last Native American was killed in the early 1900’s. They killed him because he was a Indian. The two men were hung for what they did. This guy was highly respected by the community.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I bet my friend, the empath, would pick up on that dark energy. We went to where the plane crashed, near Cannelton. My friend got super sick where all those people died. I didn’t feel anything there. But one day we went to a place that I once thought was “peculiar”. Friend says to me, “this is not a good place”. Both of our ears started ringing, and the place was dead quiet. Just really odd.

[@edwardh1591]

@@AdventureswithRoger yes he would. That hill top you mentioned I visited there once and it was overwhelming with the spiritual energy.

[@beccagee5905]

My great grandmother lived in Brown County Indiana, she told my dad that the Indians used to just walk into your house, if the family was gone. They would take what they wanted such as some sugar, but would leave a quarter of a deer as payment.

[@borbolettaazul]

I am happy found your canal😊 Thanks for! Greatings from GermanyBerlin = old slavik and sorbic native land. naturaly I've born in Bavaria South German in the Alpes. Nature Girl😊

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Welcome from Indiana! 🙂

[@brindahoward4527]

I wish you had been my Indiana history teacher. None of this was mentioned in my school. I am Cherokee; 1/4 paternal and 1/16th maternal. Nothing was mentioned about my ancestors except that my dad's ancestors had to walk The Trail of Tears. Thank you for sharing. Again, as always, great job.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Brinda! This was a project I’d wanted to do for a long time, to understand my family roots, and dispel a few myths.

[@mistyday4632]

My ancesters were Cherokee and Apache and my grandpas relatives walked the trail of tears as well.

[@Blitz9H]

The crossroads at Leota is one of the oldest intersections in Indiana. The pioneers followed the Buffalo trace. Eventually, the road was graveled and paved. In the “Old Lake” of the Muscatatuck bottoms here, where the retreating glaciers flooded and caused the lowlands, the Natives would follow along these bottoms, and along the nearby Buffalo trace. An older cousin told me that he remembered seeing huge burn circles tilled up in the bottom land. He said that’s where the Natives had struck camp and had huge feasts.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I had not had not heard this one!

[@Blitz9H]

@@AdventureswithRoger Lyman Goben wrote a book Ancient Man and the Scottsburg Lowlands. www.in.gov/dnr/historic-preservation/files/hp-FinaMlillenium_9-08.pdf

[@susanOkie60]

I grew up in Jasper county and spent several years in Tippecanoe county and Harrison county. My favorite part of Indiana is actually Brown county. My brother has several 5 gallon buckets of arrow heads and a few rock tools.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

A friend of mine lives in Crawford County, and finds them all the time! Native people loved Southern Indiana, and studies suggest that they lived here for 1000s of years. I can’t blame them, it’s a beautiful beautiful area!

[@juliablack416]

I just got through watching you video. I'm a Miami Indian. I live in the east side of Indianapolis Indiana. I was born a blonde. I have dark skin and my eyes are amber color. I enjoyed your video and I love hearing about different things about Indy. I always knew like you I was strangely different. My hair turned a darker color as I grew up, but people would stop my father and tell him " I've never seen a blonde haired child with eyes her color" My father would laugh at that saying. Of course he had black hair, dark skin I was his twin only difference was hair color and dad had black eyes. He was born in New Hope Indiana. His father was the same only his nose and cheek bones stuck out from his face. I knew Dad was different too as a kid. He was a hairless man. He had no body hair at all. When he passed away I got all his native American artifacts. I'm going to give to a museum. I've got coins, head dress, paper money, Etc. I'm proud of who I am I only wish I would have known more about are lineage as a child. It would have made things easier if I had if known. Keep up the good work.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I’m glad I got some DNA confirmation, it meant a lot to me. It might not totally answer, “why am I different from other people,” but it did give me a sense of peace. I find it peculiar, that when people have went with me, to Native American burial sites / former dwellings, they’ve said they felt “watched”, “unwanted” or just uncomfortable and wanted to leave. I always feel at home. No matter what a persons bloodline may be, they should be comfortable in their own skin: it’s all we’ve got for now! 🙂

[@primesspct2]

As always I am amazed at my own ignorance of this subject matter. We all know the "battle of Tippecanoe" But we never learned about the city it was before. "prophetstown" . I have to wonder if the prophet knew the eclipse was coming, because he had some knowledge of the stars that's very much lost to the layman now. People without telescopes etc. Thousands of years ago some societies definitely knew how to do much of that. I strongly suspect he did , but I don't know that we will ever know? Or was it coincidence? Did he read it in a periodical of the time? That wouldn't explain the earthquake prediction! I love a good mystery! post watch ~ I laughed and I cried more , I gasped and hung my head at times. A truly engaging video! You brought these great Chiefs alive, in this documentary. For me being in Ohio, so close to Indiana, just a fascinating watch. Many of the same tribes were settled here in Delaware Oh. and the surrounding country side. I thank you so much for your time and efforts.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I love digging into all the side stories! There’s long been one about Tecumseh having a relationship, with a white woman in Ohio. As the story goes, she taught him how to read, and gave him access to many books. It’s speculated that he could’ve learned about the next eclipse, from these books, and passed that on to The Prophet. That prediction certainly solidified the confederation at Prophetstown. But, it completely fell apart after he told them they were bulletproof, and they weren’t.

[@moemotel29]

Thank you for your love of history Thank you for your sharing of that history Thank you for your preservation of history Thank you for your time away from your family And thank you

[@susanOkie60]

I have learned more Indiana history in the past hour than I did in the thirty three years that I lived in Indiana.

[@keithdixon4595]

I'am proudly born and bred in Indiana and have always had a very deep connection to the Native Americans still to this day as a young boy i would watch cowboys and Indians movies on TV in the 1060's i always rooted for the Indians sadly the Indians always lost

[@Woody_Florida]

I really enjoy all of Rogers videos but this one i really was drawn into and felt a connection to. I listened to and my Hoosier mother watched this and many other Roger videos today on my way home to Florida from Orange county Indiana and on the way there. My grandparents were both born in the late 1920s and raised and lived their whole lives on the same road near Paoli. Papaw was red skinned and looked very "indian" but the one time i asked him what tribe we decended from he just kinda chuckled and said "I don't know" like he had never even thought about it. He was just Indiana bred with ancestors since before it was a state. But i really enjoyed learning and watching this with my mother, and i truly appreciate and enjoy all of Rogers videos. Thank you!

[@deannamarshall4287]

Another AWESOME tribute to my native heritage and beloved home state of Indiana. Thank you Roger for the hard work and dedication to these videos ❤

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Deanna! I did it as much for myself, as I did for the countless people that have a Native American heritage, somewhere down the line. I did it for all of us. 🙂

[@udonenomee2117]

My IN NG unit was general Tiptons yellow jackets. My company was B co 2-151 infantry. We had a ceremony at the battleground cemetery and monument. I deployed with them to Afghanistan ‘09-10, Khost province.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you for your service! The Harrison County Historical Society president told me a crazy story. There was an elderly man at Corydon, that collected all kinds of area historical items. After he passed away, his family put his belongings out on the lawn for a sale. He had actual yellow jacket items, including a buckskin yellow jacket! The historical society bought what they could.

[@transam790]

Another excellent documentary. I wish these would have been around when I was in high school. Thank you.

[@bevkern3858]

Rodgers there was Cherokee at Blackwell horse camp they raised 12 keds in a 3 room gave that's what my grand parents told us and we were related . 😊 bev from Mitchell Indiana. Patton and meadows . Names

[@RetiredLovingIt]

Loved this video Roger. Indiana is such a beautiful state. My heart has always been broken because of how the indigenous people were treated 😞

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Terri! This was one I’d wanted to do for a long time, as I’d both found so many beautiful places, and wanted to portray an untold story. It was a ton of research and re-writes, but I hope it stands as a fair depiction. 🙂

[@AnonymousHomonid]

Great vid. The Lenape Chief Nutimus of the Unami and Forks lived straight south 300 yards from me across the Susquehanna river in PA in the 1700s. Love this stuff.

[@harrymyhero]

Wow, this has to be your most important video. I loved hearing all that history and I will surely listen more than once. My Indiana family were all German folk that moved in Allen County. You are blessed to know your heritage!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

This one took a massive amount of travel, but I gleaned a great deal from the experience. Hopefully people will be blessed by it as well! 🙂

[@Mike_Greentea]

Another excellent production 🎬

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Mike!

[@ginamaria2579]

Excellent video. I was always a cynical child growing up . Very untrusting of governmental regulations . I think that comes from our native past just ingrained in us . And when we think about it, the British would have most undoubtedly betrayed our native brothers and sisters. As we have been slaves of the crown for decades, our tax dollars going to support the unelected but chosen . Love your videos, often going back and watching again and again . My grandmother was a tri- racial from the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky . beautiful woman and very smart. My daughter and now my brand new grandson has my grandmother’ s skin tone. Very proud of my family heritage ☺️💕 Thanks Roger, looking forward to more 🤗

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My Mother and some, but not all of her siblings, had the dark skin. But my wife and her family are from Tennessee, descendants of Cherokee, and definitely proud of their heritage! But talk about a mistrust of government, they are all that! 😀

[@ginamaria2579]

@@AdventureswithRoger yes 👍

[@paulshoemaker3497]

Just found your videos, thank you for the diligent research and great storytelling. I was born in Wabash and am part Miami. I enjoy learning more about the native culture and history of Indiana. Great job!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Paul! Will be returning to the Peru / Wabash area soon, there’s more things to explore!

[@es47112]

That was a great show.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you!

[@colbyking6068]

Light is the great spirit. The two fundamental particles a dipole create Everything.

[@Letsgoexplore2468]

Another great video man!!! This is why I love my home state!! And just like with traveling all around indiana and being at all these places makes you feel one with the land!!! I've hiked over 13 hundred miles just in indiana and there is something magical once you've walked in the foot steps of our ancestors!!! To many more videos and story's!!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thanks Daniel! Every path is worth walking, and every site is worth seeing!

[@lorylewis6767]

Could you tell me where you got tested please?

[@Mr._Infamous]

I was born and raised in Indiana and I've moved back here after moving other places around the country. My great-grandmother was also Native American but only half. She was Shawnee but I never really heard any stories about her ancestry. I wish I would have now because all her children are now deceased and they're the only ones I know of that would have been able to tell me the stories. Seems we have a lot in common sir including the last name Turpin

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My Native American Grandmother told my Mother an Indian treasure story. I chased that story for most of my life, finally made a movie about it! Wish I could have met her. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3LXfqB6m7Jkl9k

[@brucejr.5833]

The pictures you use to tell the story are outstanding. You can get a real good feel of how it looks now in the maps and historical aspect gives you a feeling of how it may have looked. Just all around great work.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Bruce!

[@geraldmeehan8942]

My grandparents lived right next to Pioneer Mothers, or Cox's Woods as we called it in Paoli. Excellent video Roger, Keep up the good work

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Gerald! I’d heard about those woods for years, wasn’t quite sure where they were! I passed them each time I went to West Baden, and back!

[@geraldmeehan8942]

@@AdventureswithRoger Lol, not very well marked

[@AdventureswithRoger]

How I found the woods? I got online and looked at a trail map. I saw that the village was actually closer to 150, so thought I was going to park at the church and hope I could get back before a tow truck came along. Pleasantly surprised that there’s a small area to park!

[@RobHowell1]

Great Job on the Waapaahsiki Siipiiwi mounds like i said before I’ve lived around this area and hunted artifacts and visited every mound in the tri star area and these were under my nose the whole time. Thanks for covering them ! 🙏🏼 So tranquil every time I visit!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Very cool area and not well-publicized! I really enjoyed my visit. 🙂

[@BlackestSheepBobBarker333]

What an excellent channel, thank you, seriously.

[@michaelgarrity6090]

Another great deep dive into Southern Indiana history. Keep up the good work.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you Michael!

[@talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372]

Great job sir. Enjoyed learning the history of the people. Beautiful land up there in Indiana. Amazing job as always. Thanks for taking us on the adventure.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure! This was a really enjoyable project, from beginning to end, taking me to places I’d never seen before! 🙂

[@Mr._Infamous]

What a fantastic video. Bravo my friend. You've outdone yourself again. Per usual. Good on you brother

[@leftyslimm7222]

Whoa! You knocked this one right outa the park. Well worth the wait. Major cudos!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you!

[@tracymorgan6700]

❤ Love it ❤ Thank you 😊 The video about Bigfoot was great too 😆 I'm a believer 😅 and the video about the silver treasure. 😊

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I didn’t think production of Dark Silver would ever complete! Really a tough one.

[@tracymorgan6700]

It was great. I had actually started one of your Playlist before you recommended this video 😆 I was trying to get caught up 😆 so far they're all fantastic. You've put a lot of hard work into your videos, and you can tell it. God bless you 😊 🙏 ❤️

[@darryljackson645]

Thank you so much for your great video!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Darryl! It was a great adventure to find all these places! 🙂

[@jackielanglois8945]

Loved this video especially when you describe the indigenous people. Like yourself I always felt an affinity to all things native due to my great grandmother’s Cherokee heritage. The family never spent a lot of time researching this as they all were hard working and trying to eke out a living and enculturation. GGrandmother Molly had a rooming house in Cincinnati Ohio where my Dad grew up. I love finding these video gems about native culture and their journeys, it helps to fill in some blanks. Your videos are lovely, historical, well made and informative, thank you so much.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Jackie! I made the film for two reasons, really. To explore my families connection to Indiana, and let those that no longer live here, know that it’s still home. After my “Dark Silver” film, one person living on a reservation out west, told me that people in Indiana hated native people. That’s certainly not true, and I wanted to make that known. If anything, people here want to embrace native things and concepts. I’m glad if I’ve helped anyone see what I see.

[@fredflintstone6163]

I understand Early pioneers adapted natives lifestyles and married natives often and learned the land from them

[@AdventureswithRoger]

@@fredflintstone6163 Very very common.

[@loisklinkner313]

😊 Hello Roger, This is Such an Enjoyable Video, and I learned quite a bit that I never knew before 👍👍 I am one of 3 children with Potowatomi Indian heritage. Our Great Grandma on our Mom's side was Parthena Quimby. We were told she was a Full Blooded Potowatomi Indian maiden who married an Irishman named Isreal Cannon. They produced a large family, and he fought in the Civil War. He survived, but was never the same after he returned home. They didn't have the term for PTSD back then, but I suspect that was his problem. I was born and raised in Wisconsin and have since moved to Indiana because of my Husband's job. I'm in Ft Wayne quite often these days, so I'll be visiting Statues & Monuments shown in this video. I'm so blessed to have found your channel, and I look forward to watching & learning things from your other videos. HUGE Thank You for all You do to prepare and make Your videos. 🙏May God Bless and Protect You and All Your Family ALWAYS and EVERYWHERE 🙏 XOXOXO ❤ from Lois in Northeastern Indiana 😊

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Lois! Thoughtful comments, like yours, are why I keep going. It’s always a pleasant surprise to read that somebody enjoys the movies I make. 🙂

[@MrDongodon]

Thank you Roger.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure!

[@magickdragonwizard]

I found you about two months ago now. Great Documentary.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you! This one was a monster, and took way longer than I ever imagined. But without a doubt, it was an amazing experience, and took me to places I’d never seen before. Those are the best kind of projects! 🙂

[@BoJo5066]

An interresting thing to note about most of us having the Native ancestors of the land within us is to google the blood typing maps. Almost 100% of all Native tribes, supposably, had type O blood. You will see on the blood type maps that all 3 of the Americas has the highest number of type O in compaison to other places around the world who just have a small section of type O here and there. ❤

[@robtholt4351]

Great video I recommend the book song of metamora Metamora was a Delaware chief friend of Tucumpseh. The town is named after Metamora and is a tourist town also. Thanks for a really great video!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Just did a short video about Metamora, a month ago. Hoping to get back to film the new mill wheel! One of my favorite places in Indiana. 🙂

[@robtholt4351]

@@AdventureswithRoger I'll be sure to check it out! Thanks

[@Nanna-t1l]

I really enjoy these videos u post. Keep them coming please!

[@BoJo5066]

I know that since of belonging that you are talking of. We have been in Whitley County Indiana for 200 years. Our one Native ancester is of an unknown tribe. My known Native ancestors and their tribes came from other states. I feel a tug to go to the main area of my ancestors. In Whitley County I grew up on and then later on my kids grew up on a farm that had once been the spot of a small but deadly heartbreaking battle between the large Miami tribe and a small group that had broke away from them at some point in time and became known as the Eel River indians. Years before the local pow wow retired they had done a tour of notible Native historical areas in Whitley County and they went straight to my property on their tour bus not knowing that it was my land and I was on the bus. My parents split the property and took a few acers to build a new place for themselves and I got the old farmhouse and property. Thankfully the old red tailed hawk nest that is in the mostly destroyed woods is sill there only because it is on the small strip of land that was my parents, that now belongs to my niece, the farmer tore down most of the woods on her property saying it was his land. The proerty lines on the paperwork suddenly changed some how resulting in him having more land taking it gladly destroying nature and the land that once contained soo much history and power. All these years later land stealing and destroying is still going on. I was raised there with happiness, fun and good memories and so were my kids. In the summer time we went outside and grazed on wild fruits and wild edible greens to fill our bellies. Over the decades we found tons of broken pieces of pottery. One time a tomahawk was found, etc. I found an ancient Native campfire sight about 1 1/2 feet down when I was digging a burdock root up to fry and eat. A creek goes through the land and connects to the Eel River about 1 to 2 miles down the road. Patches of swamp-like ground were around and there was one big patch that the older people around remembered going and gathering clams to eat. The old campfire I dug up had clams in it with edvidense that they had been in fire according to the Native historian that I showed it to. But the farmer drained the big swamp and put a firld there. I remember the small swamps on the land attached to our land but the farmer(s) drained them. There was a very special woods on the property next to mine that had small human made mounds in it. It was a quiet peaceful woods with a presence about it that I cant explain. Most others were not comfortable in that woods but I loved it. The soil was rich and dark. The raspberries,blackberries, and mulberries were bigger and tasted better then on the farms connected to it. It was not loaded down with poison ivy and thickets like the other woods near by were. It had a differant smell. A good natural smell. It was a secret place to be because no one else ever went there but me and my kids. The farmer tore down the entire woods and made it into a field sometime after 2014. I have often wandered what was in those mounds that he smashed down into the ground and destroyed just for a little bit of more space to farm when he already has huge fields. Terrible tragedy struck my life and I lost the farm and had to move in I think 2012. After that the atmosphere changed on and around that land. Our hidden campsite in our woods had lost its peace, the wild fruits stopped growing as well or at all. The herbs we forraged for to dry and use started growing in smaller patches or just no longer growing. It has been a heartbreak that my soul has been injured with. The farmer bought my property and then he destroyed and took down the house, woods, campsite, tons of wild fruits, and most of the Native herbs were destroyed and turned into farm land. Big old healthy trees taken down. No more wild fruit. Very small amount of the natural native local herbs left. Now the land feels like death, emptiness, hopelessness, depression, sadness. When my dad died it seemed like a piece of the land died too. He had protected it and loved it soo much. So did my mom but it was my dad who knew the fruits and herbs and let the wild animals be. Then I had to move. It was then that the land seemed to cry. I know it sounds strange, but we respected and loved that land soo much. It loved us back by giving us soo much wild free nurishment. I would have to tell others to come get some of the fruit so it didnt go to waste. It was a blessing. I moved and now live in Turtletown. Now my health has declined so much so that I need a transplant, Im on disability now and not much hope and joy fills my life anymore, although I do still have stuff to be thankful for because this little piece of land we moved to inside the city has white and dark mulberry trees and a peach tree. And it has some lemon mint and a few other of my favorites. Sorry to type soo much. Your video reminded me of the truth of what I also have experienced here in Indiana. My ancestors home of 200 years or more if my unknown tribe is of an Indiana tribe. Thank you for this very special video. I will have to look up that pow wow since our Columbia City pow wow retired. I miss it soo much. Blessings to you and may happiness and good health always be within you and around you and your loved ones. 💜🙂 🌻🪶 Edit: I forgot to add that in Churubusco they just put up a statue of Chief Little Turtle this month (June 2023) at the corner of 205 & 33.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I felt led to make this film, knowing that so many others feel like I do, while many other people have never heard of Indiana’s native past at all. Maybe it will provide both comfort and appreciation where it needs to! I do hope your health improves, and that peace will rest upon your shoulders, day by day! I’ve had many restarts and setbacks in this lifetime. Each time I gain a little wisdom, less fear, and more confidence that things will end as they were planned. 🙂

[@amegorica8902]

so much bloodshed. I cannot imagine these dark times. great video Roger thank you

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you!

[@jhsams1977]

Thank you Roger! Awesome job I did not realize that Indiana had so much Native American history.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

So much Native American history, that people still find arrowheads all the time, particularly in southern Indiana. Southern Indiana also has a deep prehistoric era, and Stone Age tools have been found in area caves. Seems like every 10th person you talk to, that lives here, either has a stone axe, or someone in their family does! Indiana university has done extensive archaeological studies, particularly along the Ohio River. Just a very cool area to explore! 🙂

[@CindyV-z4j]

I just love your stories. I learn so much from them… I could listen to these all day long. My brother and I are joining the Archeology Society at the Clark County Museum in Jeffersonville this Saturday. I love all History here and maybe now I’ll be able to know where I can actually go and check out the burial mounds and the archeology excavations myself. I am amazed at how you know where all these wonderful spots are. I am hoping to learn more from their meetings and more from you too.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

They are super nice people, and let me do a video about their museum! They’ve even added a lot since I was there. I do a lot of online research, talk to a lot of County historical society presidents, have viewers that send me ideas, and have been blessed by surprises! Lots of good things have happened along the road! I’m just glad that people enjoy what I find! 🙂

[@lilbird4198]

Thank You for this most interesting video, Roger. May peace and sovereignty reign for all of Humanity. 💚

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure!

[@fredflintstone6163]

Awesome thank you

[@GrantReed7]

amazing video roger! i visit mississinewa every year during the 1812 event. I love learning all this history about my local state! thank you!!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure! Lots and lots of hidden, Indiana history, that isn’t being taught in schools. Have never been to the 1812 re-enactment, but bet it’s epic. It would’ve been spectacular footage for this segment!

[@AwakenedOnes]

Excellent, Thank you God bless you

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure!

[@bevkern3858]

Bev from Lawrence Co. I've got Cherokee in me . ❤😊

[@joeycoll007]

These same indigenous people also occupied portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, I have found many artifacts made of stone and chert that are from a culture that predeceases the people who came across over the land bridge over ten thousand years ago, They built cities, burial mounds, and they were here there is no doubt in my mind, but around the turn of the century and before that, items found by locals that were documented in News articles were turned over to the Smithsonian institution, imagine that? Great video!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Too many suspicious disappearances to be random

[@thelostdogs2328]

Outstanding video Sir!!! Road trips!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you! Lots of places to put on a map! 🙂

[@bevkern3858]

Indian up on hey 446 3 room cave that were my part comes in Cherokee cam in my blood . Bev from Mitchell Indiana

[@charleslindley1596]

Thanks Roger for another great video.This has to be one of the best.We are pretty certain there was an Indian camp on our farm along Lick Creek on a knoll above it Over the many years of tillage a lot of arrow heads ,axes and grinding stones have been found.since we no longer plow none have turned up.This episode was a great history lesson and if you have never read "The Frontiersman" by Allan Eckert it is a great read. Keep them coming brother!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Charles! This was definitely one I’d wanted to do for a long time. What I found interesting, was that in researching the places, old maps actually showed burial mounds. The State of Indiana has an over 100 year old listing, of where 2,000 + mounds are located, but it’s not been updated since it was created. Would be interesting to get a copy and find the ones that are left!

[@Sean-mk3sg]

woot first comment! love your videos roger keep it up!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Sean!

[@jefferywilson4091]

I really enjoy your channel, my family has been in Indiana since it was settled. I'm sure like you I have some Indian connections.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My family has lived here for 7 generations. Although I’ve been many places, I’m not sure anywhere else could ever feel like home! 🙂

[@sandyhaworth4181]

I have to say this is one of my favorites. My great grandma was Blackfoot Indian. My grandma and her siblings were ashamed of it, because they were mixed. My great grandpa was white. They were made fun of. I've been out and stayed on one of the Indian Reservations in AZ. I can tell you it is heartbreaking seeing how they are treated.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I remember my Grandma trying not to make much out of it, and at one point saying there were no Indians in her family at all. Through years of research, I found that some hid in small rural communities, to escape being made to go west. Many intermarried with white people, and tried to distance themselves from their roots. Today, much of that has changed, and people want to claim Native American roots, for a sense of deeper purpose or spirituality.

[@sandyhaworth4181]

@AdventureswithRoger we were raised on my grandparents' farm in Washington Co. Grandma would wear long sleeves and skirts, and bonnets to try to keep from getting tan. She always had a fit if I was helping on the farm in shorts. Because I tanned so easily. I think about that every summer when I'm working in my garden and yard in shorts! LOL!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My Mom tanned extremely easy. I don’t remember ever seeing her sunburn. She and two of her brothers inherited the dark skin, the other six didn’t.

[@jeffmast2068]

Another quality video. Plus I was very happy to see you make it to my part of the state along the banks of the Mississinewa River.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you! Had never been to the Mississinewa / Marion area, it was a welcomed new adventure!

[@jamfox55]

This has to be my favorite video so far. Pleasantly surprised to see the Fairbanks Mound and Terre Haute Indiana Museum included. Looking forward to your next adventure....

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Lots of great discoveries on this project!

[@brentmay6379]

Miss Browning Mountain, need to hike back up there again soon. Had some strange things happen to us up there in the past as well. Didn't give it much thought at the time.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

When I was there, someone had pitched a tent about 50 yards from the stones, and there were remnants of a campfire in the middle of those stones. However, my friend that’s an empath: she got bad vibes from the place.

[@gregmorgan3781]

As always, this is a great video. Well done.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you, Greg!

[@davidpriddy9216]

Turpen was a name of a Cherokee man in Monticello KY many years and genorations ago my wife's grand father xxxxxx many

[@chrisblack8390]

Thank you Roger. Great stories of our history! Hope everything is going well with you. I have bad luck at Tippecanoe river st. Park. I've gone there alot but almost died 3 times. Wish i had some of that native American blood in me! Did find my brothers arrowheads last week. My sisters helping me clean out his house an is starting to like the things me an bill liked. It's a treasure hunt because my brother was secretive. Fun an sad at the same time. We found a ww1 rifle an its beautiful! So now she even wants a gun! And arrowheads! Well i could go on an on but thank you an have a great day.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure, Chris! It’s sad for someone in your life to pass, and painful to sort through what they left behind. What they collected in life, often tells a hidden story, that brings up even more questions. Apart from selling my guitars, I’m not sure my family would know what to do, with all I’ve collected! Rocks from places I visited, an apple seed from a tree near Johnny Appleseed’s grave, photos of obscure places: they’d probably assume I was crazy! But, while I’m here, all those things bring me joy, and remind me of adventures I once had! 🙂

[@chrisblack8390]

@@AdventureswithRoger me an my brother also collected rocks. Alot of his are Indian tools. My sister wants his rocks so i have to make sure i find all the Indian rocks. I got 1 blackish one with a marble size garnet in it. An he has a big meteor which i don't know how I'm going to get it in the truck. Both came from my grandparents farm fields. We are finding instruments from the 1800s. My parents said to leave it all an sell the house. At least 2 of the instruments came from my relatives an a dresser my great, great grandfather made in 1895.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

@@chrisblack8390 A friend of mine has a dresser that her Grandma owned, made out of a tree that’s now extinct, in Indiana! I can’t remember the type of tree, but always thought that was an interesting item. If you know the right person, a legit meteorite, especially a large one, can bring big bucks!

[@pamelarust3487]

I love your videos of my native Indiana. Have you ever listened to Wayne May’s work about the mound builders of the Midwest? It is worth your time. Keep the videos coming! Thank you

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I haven’t been a podcast person, which is strange because I love stories! Most of my research is online repositories, county archives, libraries and field work. One thing I’ve noticed, is that many “experts” are just people that read the books of other contemporaries, and retell the same stories. It could be that all of them are wrong! I truly enjoyed reading the over 100 year old accounts, geological reports (there was no Indiana archaeology department at the time), and getting a feel for what they were discovering. Very telling stuff!

[@sharonrose1226]

Very informative video. Please make some videos about the stories your great grandmother passed down through your family. Those would make some really great videos. I live in Fort Wayne, but grew up just west of Peru. I also attended Vincennes University. A lot of the sites in this video were familiar to me. Thanks for the video.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My pleasure! I did a film about her Indian treasure story, called “Dark Silver”. DARK SILVER: Legend of the Lost Southern Indiana Silver Mine kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3LXfqB6m7Jkl9k

[@indianamichelle7216]

Fantastic job! Just the right amount of mysticism and history for me. As well as a few new places to hopefully explore with the grandkids this summer. Well done!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thanks, Michelle! I tried to get a good balance: lots of information to sift through! 🙂

[@indianamichelle7216]

@@AdventureswithRoger I can only imagine, looks like a lot of intricate detail ! We really enjoyed the Native American stops as well as the touch on the Ancestry DNA. I’ve always been told that my GG Grandmother from Crawford county was Native American, u do believe she was. So far my ancestry has mostly shown up European which is interesting too, but was hoping for native-maybe it will show eventually! Lucky you that yours did. That’s probably why you’re drawn to the places that you are. Very cool! Any tips on finding arrow heads?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

When I was younger, I had this image in my mind of whom I was going to marry. I had a dream in which I was in an old church with a unique red rug, and I could see her in the white dress. A beam of light hit her hair, it was just so real! I started drawing pictures of her, and wondering who she was! Obsessed much? 😀 Fast forward to June 1998, and I meet this woman that just mesmerized me. I had never been a person to just force my way into a conversation, but I walked up, sat down in front of her and started talking. Turns out she lived near my grandparents town, and I said, “I visit every weekend, maybe we could do lunch?” And that’s how it all began. Later I’d find out that her entire family had Native American roots, and we were soon planning a wedding! What was weird, was that she chose to have the wedding in a really old church in the country, and the red carpet was exactly like the dream. And during the ceremony: the beam of light on her hair! Weird coincidences for sure! Arrowheads: best place to find them are in southern Indiana, near known villages with waterways. Sometimes you have to go deep hiking as the common places have been hunted for over a hundred years. A friend of mine has been collecting for over 50 years, and says the Ohio River bank, after a big flood, is the very best time to look. When the water recedes

[@indianamichelle7216]

@@AdventureswithRoger what a wonderful story! Sounds like your native ancestors might have had a hand in that “coincidence “ I’d like to think somehow those before us are able to communicate with us somehow. 🦋 Thanks for the arrowhead suggestion. We’ve never been able to find any but might try the banks of the mighty Ohio next time.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My friend has found some really good arrowheads and an awesome spear point, along the Ohio River. He even found a native skeleton, that he ended up re-burying higher up on the bank!

[@johnjoole2258]

I live on a chain of lakes in Florida have found many arrow heads and skinning stones.I took photos and put them back in the holes i dug. I can honestly say with no doubt this is and was scared ground 🙏

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I know that the ancestral lands here, definitely have a vibe. My one friend, whom has Cherokee lineage, said it’s a bad idea to take artifacts home, as there could be “attachments”. I have a few things that were given to me, but have never felt anything unusual. However, they were common things, items that people probably wouldn’t have ascribed an emotional bond. I believe jewelry or ceremonial items would be a completely different story.

[@fredflintstone6163]

When I walk the Hoosier Forrest I still feel the natives presents I may be part native

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Definitely a presence to the area

[@kimberlyray3014]

I have a friend who is native we live in ohio and find lots of artifacts walk riverbanks and freashly plowed fields alot of flint and jasper to be found

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Ohio is an area rich in Native American history for sure! If you can find a state directory of mounds, it would absolutely lead to even more awesome finds!

[@Moderationisamyth]

I love your videos! Especially this one as I am a continuous student of native culture. I am reading books by Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett about King Arthur and my interest, King Arthur in America. The possibility fascinates me. In my study I have found many links of ancient Welsh with Native Americans. Curious if you’ve heard about this and what you know.?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I’ve produced several films about the Prince Madoc legend, but not King Arthur.

[@muddgeeser]

You really know your stuff

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Learning all the time. Hopefully some of it sticks with me! 🙂

[@netaen]

It is sad to hear about how the white man treated the native peoples. I like your films they are informative and tickling my imagination. I wish I knew about Indiana's history when I was travelling in the United States. Now I can travel via KZbin!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

There really is a lot to discover in Indiana! I honestly thought I would be done in six months. Here I am, seven years later! 🙂

[@reneeodayok859]

@@netaenRespectfully... it's sad how humans have treated each other. Let's not forget that the Indians did horrible things to opposing tribes as well. It's not about color but culture.

[@IndianaDaBaby7]

Cousin keep up the good work

[@cindymarasligiller2115]

Another fascinating video. Congrats on your Native American dna results. Despite family lore, our tests showed none.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Don’t be discouraged. The DNA markers skip, and I’ve had one test say no Native American link, and the next one showed up. People in same families, blood relatives, often have DNA tests that don’t show the markers, while they do.

[@travisdiveley1652]

Great video. I bet they used those caves to retreat from Giants also. There have been many Skeleton's of Giants found there too.🤔 Perhaps the Spirits of The Giants are Active too.??

[@HillBillyEarl]

Do you know how many videos I have watched? Trying to learn about our cousins! Love this! God Bless!!!

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I really enjoyed making this video, as I wanted to connect the dots of Indiana history, and links to my family. I knew that thousands of people were like me, having these connections and feelings, as I’d spoke to many over the years. I put several months into this one, was glad I could bring it all together and share! 🙂

[@stephenhall2729]

Hahaha, You caught a pic of the Squatch, very nice! Did you get to speak to anyone at Waapaahsiki Siipiiwi that runs the area? They are more than willing to speak of the lore that the mounds is burial for giants. By the way, i would like to know why 7 people in the last month have downvoted this. Not sure why anyone in their right mind would downvote a video like this. I guess it was the visit to Terrible Haute??

[@AdventureswithRoger]

While I was there, only two visitors showed up, and they stayed less than 10 minutes. It was nice to have the place to myself, though. When you’re doing a documentary, you want natural sound in the background. If kids are yelling, people are talking loud, or their dogs bark at you as if you’re a mortal threat, it means you have to zero the audio and import fake background noise. ☺️ I’ve stopped questioning why some people dislike the videos. Some people hate my Hoosier accent, some take offense to things I could never predict, and some people are just grumpy for no reason. For a fact, no one that regularly makes KZbin videos, gives a thumbs down: they realize the money, time and effort it takes to do these. And, there’s no guarantee you’ll ever break even, after all you’ve invested into creating something completely new. You’ve gotta love the process, and overlook bad comments! 🙂

[@bevkern3858]

How do you get a test like you did Roderick were do I go.😊

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Just go to the AncestryDNA site and order a kit, nothing to it. I got mine on sale for around $50, but they’re as high as $100 now. www.ancestry.com/c/dna/bundle?o_xid=79107&o_lid=79107&o_sch=Paid+Search+Brand&ancid=wwb6eax3kz&s_kwcid=ancestry.com+dna&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADtC4OeuSmRviHYsxzWD2h8bgtU_e&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq87YidWSggMV3g2tBh3XzwmUEAAYAiAAEgKVWPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[@bobbiejothomas681]

Oh Roger this is my favorite video of yours. I love learning about our Native ppl. I was just wondering if you have noticed that some of your stills have a well for lack of better description, clouds of mist? Smoke? I first saw it over the water of a creek, and two more times throughout the different places. I can't help but wonder.. or maybe it's more akin to hope lol that maybe one of your ancestors made an appearance for your video? I think it's great you could trace your heritage back and discover what you knew in your heart all along. You are truly blessed. Thank you from my heart for all of your videos but especially for this one. You rock 🤟😁💯✌️

[@AdventureswithRoger]

This was truly a project of inner exploration. It provided peace in a time, that I needed to find it, and there’s definitely a sense of spirit at many of the locations. Trick of light or phenomenon on camera, it’s hard to say. I’ll often look at these, months or years later, and remember the feelings and miles that went with them. Would suggest a roadtrip to anyone needing an emotional cleansing. 🙂

[@bobbiejothomas681]

@@AdventureswithRoger That is a wonderful suggestion and I would love to take a trip, I think that is just what I need come to think about it 😁 Thanks Roger, for being you, and sharing with us your wealth of knowledge about the land, and its ppl of Indiana, you are awesome 💯🤟🙏✌️😁

[@LucysMom1]

I love your videos. Do you have a list of locations mentioned in each video? I would love to visit so many locations you mention.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

No lists or gps locations. I keep telling myself I’ll make a book with detailed maps

[@primesspct2]

I have never found any artifacts in creeks? I know many do, I must not be going at the right times? Maybe after flood waters recede in the spring?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I know two guys that have hunted arrowheads for decades, and have impressive collections. They both claim that the best place to find them are along waterways, particularly the Ohio River after a major flood recedes. They’ve found a lot of “factory second” arrowheads, where the maker was knapping and knocked off too much. It is an art form, and there’s even a club for enthusiasts, to learn how to make their own.

[@wysteria4J.9512]

I’m late in seeing this but it’s an awesome video! A sad look back on history. Sounds like the British caused a lot of the calamities between the cultures. It just snow balled from there 🤦🏼‍♀️. No wonder some paybacks got so gruesome. Sad just sad.

[@jasguy2715]

I was surprised to hear you mention the Lenni Lenape. They were mostly in southern New Jersey as well as other parts and I had no idea they had actually been further West than that so I'm a little bit confused.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

The Lenni Lenape were what the Delaware Indians called themselves. Both Ohio and Indiana was well settled by their numbers, and graves were built on top of much older mounds, many of which still exist today. The Delaware, like other tribes in Indiana, were unfairly grouped with those factions committing horrific settler murders. They were thus removed, never to live here again.

[@jasguy2715]

Very interesting! I'm going to have to research on this a little bit, because as far as I know, the Lenni Lenape Indians were part of the Algonquin Nation as their language was similar to other languages of the Algonquin group of nations. I just want to tell you, you did a great, absolutely great video! @@AdventureswithRoger

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Thank-you! 🙂

[@robertreads21]

Hey Roger! I love your vids. You should get a dna test done to find out more of your native heritage.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I did. Myself and one cousin both had native DNA from North America. I think they’re still far from getting specifics, such as what tribes. What makes it difficult, is that many current tribes on reservations, banded together when their numbers decreased.

[@richardhitch6913]

I belive West Virginia was once called Indiana nearing land between two rivers. I believe from my past that since Indiana is located between the Ohio and Wabash rivers was how Indiana got its name.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

According to my source material, Mad Anthony Wayne promised the local tribes that lands west of Fort Wayne, would always be theirs. Thus, it was called “Indiana” or “land of the Indians”. Whether that’s the truth or old folklore, I couldn’t tell you.

[@lorylewis6767]

Could you tell je where you got tested that showed native american??

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Ancestry.com sells a test, that analyzes your DNA, and publishes results to your personal portal. Having millions of profiles, they can even approximate where your ancestors lived.

[@wallskog333]

Rodger what part of Indiana are you in ? you sound close . a lot of the same places you explore. I also used to till my legs got so bad.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I live over at Greenville, it's close to everything I like to see!

[@S.L.O.P.]

You sound a lot like Rusty West...is there a reason for that?

[@AdventureswithRoger]

Don’t know Rusty. Does he have a southern Indiana accent?

[@personperson3101]

Obviously you have Indian blood if your grandmother was Indian. Knowing something already as fact isn't a feeling.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

I used to do genealogy with a guy in California, that was my relative on my dad’s side of the family. We sent information back-and-forth for over 20 years. He took a DNA test and found out: he wasn’t related to us at all! There was a rumor that someone’s grandma had an affair, and that was the proof. It’s not always a slam dunk.

[@Cognitobot]

Nice work! I live in Indianapolis. Basically, things haven’t changed much. Non-whites can understand how native Americans or blacks were treated. Diversity is not Indiana’s strength. The people of indiana should learn the history and try to stop repeating it. Along with native America videos, you should do a few on the lynchings of blacks. Indiana’s history and current state is not so pleasant for non-whites. Fear of other cultures, or more specifically, religion has played a big part in shaping how we got here. Unfortunately, it still plays a big part.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

My motivation for this one was two-fold: showing the amazing places where Indiana’s ancestors lived, and clearing up the idea that native Americans aren’t welcome here. That’s simply not true. Not only welcome, but integrated into tons of families, and very much a part of southern Indiana culture. People have made mistakes here, for lots of different people. But depending where you go, they’ve mostly been corrected by better sense. Having worked in downtown Indy, lived in the suburbs, and now in deep southern Indiana, I can say you’ll find both the best and worst in people, if you try hard enough. The important thing is to treat people how you want to be treated, and ignore those who will never change.

[@SugarMilkbro]

I stumbled onto this channel on accident. I've always been fascinated with these topics, and let me say; these are very well done. Great production value with the video, but also great to just listen to while working.

[@AdventureswithRoger]

You made my day, Charles! This was one of those projects I’d wanted to do for a long time, and knew there were more stories out there, than people realize. I got an education for sure! It was truly an adventure to find all these places! 🙂