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==Medicine Mounds==
==Medicine Mounds==
Medicine Mound is near four dolomite hills known as '''Medicine Mounds,''' which are considered sacred by the Comanche and Kiowa Indians who believe that the landmarks contain mystical spirits to improve the quality of their lives. The mounds are on private property and not available for public tours beyond an outer five-mile limit. One can see for approximately fifty miles from the top of the mounds.<ref name=memories>"Memories of the Mounds", website of Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group:http://www.medicinemound.com/themounds.htm</ref>
Medicine Mound is near four dolomite hills known as '''Medicine Mounds,''' which are considered sacred by the Comanche and Kiowa Indians who believe that the landmarks contain mystical spirits to improve the quality of their lives. The mounds are on private property and not available for public tours beyond an outer five-mile limit. One can see for approximately fifty miles from the top of the mounds.<ref name=memories>"Memories of the Mounds," former website of Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group.</ref>
John A. Bates of Ferndale in Oakland County, near [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the former executive director of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group> and a cousin of Myna Potts, recalls having visited Medicine Mount when he was a boy: "The Comanche would come to the Medicine Mounds for their healing powers, often trading flint and other goods and racing their ponies around the mound below us. . . . We carefully descended about seventy-five feet or so to an almost imperceptible track that circled the entire mound, which was used by Quanah Parker's braves to test their horsemanship. [In 1966], this 'track' was still quite visible, especially for a young man with a fertile imagination. Sadly, it is slowly disappearing as the young [[cedar]] trees begin to reclaim the ground."<ref name=memories/>
John A. Bates of Ferndale in Oakland County, near [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the former executive director of the Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group> and a cousin of Myna Potts, recalls having visited Medicine Mount when he was a boy: "The Comanche would come to the Medicine Mounds for their healing powers, often trading flint and other goods and racing their ponies around the mound below us. . . . We carefully descended about seventy-five feet or so to an almost imperceptible track that circled the entire mound, which was used by Quanah Parker's braves to test their horsemanship. [In 1966], this 'track' was still quite visible, especially for a young man with a fertile imagination. Sadly, it is slowly disappearing as the young [[cedar]] trees begin to reclaim the ground."<ref name=memories/>