White Oak mounds and village is located in the southeastern corner of Itasca County near Deer River Minnesota on a point protruding into White Oak Lake. There are several burial mounds, two of which were excavated in 1940 and 1954 by Lloyd A. Wilford. Mound 1 was classified as Late Woodland with a Blackduck component and Wilford determined that Mound 4 was occupied later. The village site was nicely stratified and exhibited Early to Late Woodland components. Wilford sorted the ceramic body sherds into Sandy Lake, Blackduck, net-impressed, horizontally-corded, and smooth categories. The evidence at the White Oak Village site supported the view that the Sandy Lake ware is the most recent, Blackduck is intermediate, and Brainerd ware is the oldest.
Lugenbeal, Edward, Brainerd Ware Occurrence and chronological Relationships, Some Studies of Minnesota Prehistoric Ceramics: Papers presented at the first council for Minnesota Archeology Symposium-1976, Edited by a Alan R. Woolworth and Mark A. Hall. 1978.