LITTLE ROUND HILL TRADING SITE
Archaeological Site — Wadena County, Minnesota
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/little-round-hill-trading-site-minnesota/

Archaeological site associated with documented cultural history.

Little Round Hill Trading Site is a archaeological site in Minnesota. Archaeological site associated with documented cultural history. Excavations in 1992 and 2009–2010 recovered occupation evidence consistent with a trading camp; identification with the narrated fort remains interpretive. Local lore holds that Ojibwe oral history recorded by William Warren connects this location with a late-eighteenth-century trading post and battle.

Little Round Hill is the memory — the 'Flat Mouth's story' that's the childhood attack, the '1852 told' that's the Warren recorded. The 'blacksmith's fort' is the fought — the 'Awashtoyaa' that's the French trader, the '200 Dakota' that's the raiders repelled. The 'musketballs' is the proven — the '1992 dig' that's the lead found, the 'oral validated' that's the dirt confirmed.
The 'borderland' is the contested — the 'Ojibwe-Dakota' that's the hunting grounds disputed, the 'Crow Wing' that's the river's edge. The 'Wadena' is the named — the 'little round hill' that's the word's meaning, the 'town took' that's the name adopted. Little Round Hill is the rare — the 'story matched artifacts' that's the archaeology's win, the 'winter encampment' that's the traders' risk.
The file keeps Little Round Hill: Flat Mouth's account, the blacksmith's fort, the musketballs found, and the name's origin.
Little Round Hill is the archive's Minnesota file — where oral history met the trowel.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Little Round Hill is the archive's Minnesota file — Ojibwe memory proven by musketballs.
A site keeps its told — the file's suggestion being that the hill's hold is the corroborated: the 'Flat Mouth's child' that's the eyewitness kept, the '200 attacked' that's the numbers remembered, and the 'lead found' that's the story's proof.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] historical oral tradition: Ojibwe oral history recorded by William Warren connects this location with a late-eighteenth-century trading post and battle. The account has been recorded since 1852 account by William Warren; earlier oral transmission is undated.. The reports at Little Round Hill Trading Site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Little Round Hill Trading Site' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Little Round Hill Trading Site' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.
  source: Little Round Hill Trading Site (https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Excavations in 1992 and 2009–2010 recovered occupation evidence consistent with a trading camp; identification with the narrated fort remains interpretive. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Little Round Hill Trading Site'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Old Wadena Park Campground — Wadena County Government
  https://www.wadenacounty.gov/225/Old-Wadena-Park-Campground
· Little Round Hill Trading Site — Minnesota Historical Society / Wadena County Historical Society / Lina Belar
  https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site

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