Spirit Mound

Spirit Mound is a state park of South Dakota, USA, highlighting an unmistakable slope on the Great Plains. Stories and religious convictions about "Little People" are basic to numerous if not most Native American clans in the West. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition remained for a period with a band of the Vermillion River in cutting edge South Dakota. On August 25, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and 10 other men went around 9 miles north of the waterway's intersection with the Missouri River to see the "heap of the Little People". Lewis wrote in his diary that the Little People were "deavals" with vast heads, around 18 inches high, and exceptionally aware of any interruptions into their region.

The Sioux said that the demons conveyed sharp bolts which could strike at a long separation, and that they slaughtered any individual who moved toward their mound. The Little People so alarmed the neighborhood populace, Lewis detailed, that the Maha, Ottoes, and Sioux would not go close to the place. Spirit Mound was in private hands for a long time, prompting broad corruption of the site's unique status. White pilgrims initially went to the territory in 1868, and utilized it for brushing domesticated animals and for farming. Five separate landowners claimed parts of the site in the mid 1980s. In excess of 20 structures, a feed part, soybean fields, corn handle, a few streets, 1,500 non-local trees, and 5 miles of fence specked the site.