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The passenger pigeon played a religious role for some northern Native American tribes. The Wyandot people (or Huron) believed that every twelve years during the Feast of the Dead, the souls of the dead changed into passenger pigeons, which were then hunted and eaten. [96]
Little Pigeon Baptist Church. The Little Pigeon Primitive Baptist Church, a Regular Baptist congregation, was established June 8, 1816 with 15 charter members. [10] Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, helped build the cabin for the church in 1819, located south of present-day Lincoln City, Indiana [11] [1], in the center of the community near a spring.
In 1904 the state of Indiana authorized $2,000 to build a memorial to the victims of the Pigeon Roost Massacre. It is a 44-foot-tall (13 m) obelisk and the area was made a state historic site in 1929. Recently, new historic markers were placed on US-31 at the entrance to the site and a picnic shelter was built.
The law prohibited the transportation of illegally captured or prohibited animals across state lines, [6] and addressed potential problems caused by the introduction of non-native species of birds and animals into native ecosystems. [3] Another major motivation for the Lacey Act was the over-hunting of birds for millinery work. [7]
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The passenger pigeon was a flocking species that was once a species widespread in North America. Before the arrival of colonial Europeans to North America, the passenger pigeon was thought to account for up to 40% of all individual birds on the continent. [24] The main drivers of the species' extinction were habitat destruction and
John Mellencamp and his catalog of songs about small-town life have long been linked to the state of Indiana — and now, his Hoosier State legacy has been cemented (or make that bronzed).