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Vest, Jay Hansford C. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
In north central Virginia there is a local tale--The Legend of Jump Mountain, which purports to explain the origins of the Hayes Creek Indian Burial Mound. A highly romantic legend, it immortalizes post colonial intertribal warfare during the early nineteenth century while ignoring the antiquity of the mound and the local descendants of its…
Descriptors: American Indians, Local History, Tales, Story Telling