You have a great talent for research and finding these old articles. I don't expect you to, but perhaps you could find something in the papers about the digging up of thousands of Native american bodies around 1870? from an alleged Indian war that happened near Lanesboro and Whalan Minnesota (the war predated the locals excavating the burial sites by what was estimated a few hundred years). Lanesboro is my home town. Lanesboro had a couple of papers during that time. There was also a paper in Preston Minnesota which is only a few miles from Lanesboro and the county seat. The one article i did read, said they dug up hundreds, if not thousands of bodies and it was reported the bones had almost completely decayed away too and they found tools and weapons and they were told by a local indian that it had been passed down through story that a warring party from Wisconsin had come over for some sort of retribution and this was a war on the banks of the Root River (which flows through Lanesboro and Whalan). I imagine the papers would have reported on the digs going on.
