What is the historic origin of these Indian burial grounds?

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I've recently watched two movies that feature the Indian burial ground as a plot point, however in these two films they both actually show a physical burial ground, which appears to be made up of concentric circles of rocks. I've never seen this anywhere other than in movies, and my Google searches mostly lead me to more images from these movies, so I'm curious where the inspiration for these came from. The two films (there may be others) that I saw these in are Pet Semetary (1989) and Bone Tomahawk (2015). Are these portrayals based on any actual burial ground ruins?



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    Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
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  • @ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
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I've recently watched two movies that feature the Indian burial ground as a plot point, however in these two films they both actually show a physical burial ground, which appears to be made up of concentric circles of rocks. I've never seen this anywhere other than in movies, and my Google searches mostly lead me to more images from these movies, so I'm curious where the inspiration for these came from. The two films (there may be others) that I saw these in are Pet Semetary (1989) and Bone Tomahawk (2015). Are these portrayals based on any actual burial ground ruins?



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Bone Tomahawk



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    Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
    – Todd Wilcox
    1 hour ago










  • @ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
    – sanpaco
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I've recently watched two movies that feature the Indian burial ground as a plot point, however in these two films they both actually show a physical burial ground, which appears to be made up of concentric circles of rocks. I've never seen this anywhere other than in movies, and my Google searches mostly lead me to more images from these movies, so I'm curious where the inspiration for these came from. The two films (there may be others) that I saw these in are Pet Semetary (1989) and Bone Tomahawk (2015). Are these portrayals based on any actual burial ground ruins?



Pet Semetary



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Bone Tomahawk



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I've recently watched two movies that feature the Indian burial ground as a plot point, however in these two films they both actually show a physical burial ground, which appears to be made up of concentric circles of rocks. I've never seen this anywhere other than in movies, and my Google searches mostly lead me to more images from these movies, so I'm curious where the inspiration for these came from. The two films (there may be others) that I saw these in are Pet Semetary (1989) and Bone Tomahawk (2015). Are these portrayals based on any actual burial ground ruins?



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    Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
    – Todd Wilcox
    1 hour ago










  • @ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
    – sanpaco
    1 hour ago












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    Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
    – Todd Wilcox
    1 hour ago










  • @ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
    – sanpaco
    1 hour ago







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Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
– Todd Wilcox
1 hour ago




Side note: "Indian burial grounds" are also an important plot point in the movie Poltergeist.
– Todd Wilcox
1 hour ago












@ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
– sanpaco
1 hour ago




@ToddWilcox yes indeed, I had that one in mind as well but didn't mention it since there isn't any depiction of them. Its a common horror trope, but the only examples of them being depicted that I could think of was the two mentioned.
– sanpaco
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According to Atlas Obscura:




First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
thing. Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
different communities, families, or nations, without very many
similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.




(See also TV Tropes' page on the subject.)



The only thing I've found that somewhat resembles the images in these movies is the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, formerly known as the "Bighorn Medicine Wheel":




The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.



Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.




See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark






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    According to Atlas Obscura:




    First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
    which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
    thing.     Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
    different communities, families, or nations, without very many
    similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
    of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
    the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
    there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
    ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
    performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
    is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
    there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.




    (See also TV Tropes' page on the subject.)



    The only thing I've found that somewhat resembles the images in these movies is the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, formerly known as the "Bighorn Medicine Wheel":




    The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
    with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
    ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
    by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
    this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
    similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.



    Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
    have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
    from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
    appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.




    See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark






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      According to Atlas Obscura:




      First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
      which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
      thing.       Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
      different communities, families, or nations, without very many
      similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
      of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
      the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
      there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
      ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
      performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
      is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
      there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.




      (See also TV Tropes' page on the subject.)



      The only thing I've found that somewhat resembles the images in these movies is the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, formerly known as the "Bighorn Medicine Wheel":




      The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
      with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
      ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
      by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
      this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
      similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.



      Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
      have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
      from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
      appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.




      See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark






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        According to Atlas Obscura:




        First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
        which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
        thing.         Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
        different communities, families, or nations, without very many
        similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
        of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
        the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
        there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
        ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
        performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
        is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
        there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.




        (See also TV Tropes' page on the subject.)



        The only thing I've found that somewhat resembles the images in these movies is the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, formerly known as the "Bighorn Medicine Wheel":




        The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
        with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
        ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
        by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
        this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
        similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.



        Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
        have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
        from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
        appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.




        See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark






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        According to Atlas Obscura:




        First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
        which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
        thing.         Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
        different communities, families, or nations, without very many
        similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
        of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
        the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
        there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
        ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
        performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
        is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
        there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.




        (See also TV Tropes' page on the subject.)



        The only thing I've found that somewhat resembles the images in these movies is the Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, formerly known as the "Bighorn Medicine Wheel":




        The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
        with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
        ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
        by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
        this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
        similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.



        Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
        have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
        from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
        appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.




        See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Wheel/Medicine_Mountain_National_Historic_Landmark







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