Native American Artifacts

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Native American Artifacts Debby Moore Collection
Native American  Artifact Edge.  Metal Munitions used to Kill - War on Indians.  Picture right, Native American Artifacts made of flint from Central Missouri, USA

Native American Artifacts from Flint Matrix Central Missouri USA
Native American Artifacts on left, more for defense, center are scrapers, & cutting tools.  Right side is for working shaft of arrows.

These are pictures of my Native American tool collection: spearhead  - bone tools  - bone artifacts - love - peace - strength - curious - intelligent - prominent - holy - respectful - useful - creative - dignity - admirable - resourceful - enduring - honor - dependable - stewards - teachers - survivors - leaders - builders - faithful
Parched Corn 700 years old - purchased Topeka USGS auction 1965.
An amazing story of discovery:
A member of 20 years in the Wichita Gem and Mineral Society, I have obtained much knowledge on Native American artifacts.  Those who taught me the most, I have outlived.  Recently, March 23, 2021, I discovered laying on the surface at a location where a garage was removed, and new fence post dug.  Like jewels in the dirt, these marvelous artifacts sang out at me.  I learn that night this is the official day the 'Trail of Tears' arrived at their destination.  Over the next twenty four hours, I do a lot of internet research about the location, and history of area.  My intrigue is motivated by the overwhelming number of specimens I have retrieved.

Deciding I was possible really into something, I did a test walk with my dog around the block, and actually picked up from the surface an other dozen artifact laying on the ground smiling at me.  Later that day, I picked up from the surface another dozen specimens, at the Boys and Girls Club, which sits on the cliff overlooking the wet lands.  Over the last ten years, I observed the construction, and grading of the land to build the club.  At one point several tons of amasonite was offered to neighbors as construction crew leveled land.  The artifacts I found was from replacing the surface layer of top soil the construction company had removed and sit aside at beginning of construction.

Considering the magnitude of research available at this point, I now embrace the suffering, and carnage, the murderous acts of the US military, and volunteers to kill, the Indian Wars, where normally good people joyed over the death of the Native Americans.  Researching "All Native American Indian Trails lead to Lawrence Kansas".  Also research (don't forget Wiki)  Haskell Indian School opening.  Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Indian Removal Act, War on Indians, Custer.  Under the city of Lawrence, Kansas complex tunnels that go almost all under the city.  Probably created through erosion, caused by the river.

So it is that the abundance of artifacts I have uncovered is unnatural, and my journey is to learn the answer.  I have consulted with a fellow member of our club, and also a member of historical society; he scoffed at my findings.  While scoffing he gave me hints of good advice.  Many Native Americans used river rock to floor their homes.  This I did not know, for all the Native American homes I have been in have wood floors.  Certain rocks will shine if they spend time in running water, being polished.  Expert also kept repeating I could not definitively state the specimens I had collected were in deed artifacts.

Total, I have two half filled buckets of specimens I believe to be Native American artifacts.  If the rocks are tools, then I believe I should be able to sort them into categories.  I  am now sorting, and the specimens are falling into 11 uses.  Obvious to me there was vanity even among Native Americans in that some specimens are much more desirable because of content of matrix.  Also, while almost all the tools in this find I have discovered are for making arrows i.e. scrapers for smoothing and perfecting tree limbs, unquestionably few are custom made tools a person would carry with themselves, for one tool has multiple purposes.  Also I am discovering, in the pouch of a Native American person, tied to waist, a self defense tool would also be kept.  My mind calculates, every time you find these tools, a Native American person died there in that spot.  Not many arrowheads are available for discovery, first easily identifiable has reduced availability, second very fragile, and easily breaks to multiple pieces.

My opinion the story is in the tools.  What a Native American person would always have with him or her self.  Since my find was evaluated by above mentioned, another expert USGS person Steve Travis, evaluated my find, his opinion I am in the midst of "Native American camp".

Another abstract thought (4-23-21).  It appears in the historical data I am researching, all redesign of Native American culture by Europeans are on a 25 five year plan.  I doubt the Europeans buried the Native Americans as they slaughtered them in the War on Indians.  History records often the massacre of these military raids would be a count of 645 women and children dead.  Did they give the land twenty five years to rot, and assimilate the physical of the Native American person  before they began occupation and development?  Is that a dirty little secret no one wants to talk about?

My intent, where I hope to obtain help and gain knowledge, is to give persons a data base to reasonably determine if the tool they find is authentic.  To me this is important, for the Native American tools are everywhere.  If persons picked them up and acknowledge those who owned these tools were defending themselves with rocks while the Europeans used guns to kill.  The Native Americans deserve this hour of recognition and honor, for they were everywhere in great numbers.     

            Site under development.  Pictures to come.
  I have discovered when you play with a specimen you think is an artifact, meaning spin it until it falls into your hand.  You will easily see the hask tooling marks on the working end.  Assuming forefathers choose specimens needing least labor toward usefulness, place the flat part under your bent pointer finger.  For myself, this helps identify purpose of the specific tool.  Tool is either used with first three fingers, or held in fist for serious defense.

December 10, 2021:  I am now concluding that the Natives were in the territory conquered by the Europeans, perhaps a million years before their demise.  This being probable, rocks utilized as tools are actually every where.  Man kind made everything from wood.  His means of shaping wood utilized rocks, they being harder than the wood.  Removing fat from the inside of hides to make them useful.  These required both large and small scrapers.  Grinding grain, and roots into useful consumption.