[meteorite-list] Meteorite Folklore and Legend, 2

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:41:47 -0400
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The Hopewell Indians, like many other native American tribes,
venerated meteorites as messengers or gifts from the gods. Several
Hopewell burial mounds in Southern Ohio and Central Illinois contained
items made from or inlaid with meteorite. One mound, located in Little
Miami Valley Ohio, contained a piece of pallasite. This pallasite was
analyzed and was found to be a part of the Brenham meteorite. The
Brenham site in Kiowa Kansas is 1000 miles from the site of the
Hopewell burial mound. This shows that the American Indians of that
time placed great value on meteorites and they recognized them as
something special and celestial.

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