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in more permanent settlements along the major rivers.
“ It could be that people in Brown County were outcasts,” he said.“ There is such a thing as hill people.”“ People who lived here in the hills could have been different; tended to be less social, more independent, less on the cutting edge of technology and society. The hilly, more rugged terrain set them apart from ongoing social movements of these various periods.”
Some believe the collapse of these Native American societies was the result of climate change, causing a change in the growing season. Another reason may be an increased availability of bison herds, drawing people westward. Or perhaps Native Americans simply over exploited the natural resources.
We think of the native population politely withdrawing and moving off into the West as white settlers took the lands that are now Brown County by treaty in 1821. But in Ray Mathis’ s 1936 A Brown County History he quotes pioneer Servalvo McGuire as recalling,“ My mother remembers seeing Indian boys swimming in Salt Creek, near what was once the Old Hoover Mill( near John Wrightsman’ s). They would lay on the logs, and when a white person showed up, they would dive and swim around with only their heads showing. That was in about 1844 – 45.” He also recalled“ a band of 20 Indians from Evansville, some walking, some riding.” •
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