Any ground disturbance of an ancient Indigenous mound in Wisconsin requires state approval, but it often takes concerned citizens to make sure the law is followed. That’s the case in Madison’s Vilas ...

At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, ...

For one of the state’s preeminent experts on ancient Indigenous mounds, it made sense to Kurt Sampson to help write a book about the subject, focusing on a mound-rich region in Wisconsin. It would be ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A bill moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would more clearly define protections for Indian burial mounds. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that the bill would specify when ...

MADISON — A concrete company can’t dig up American Indian burial mounds located within its southern Wisconsin quarry, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday without explanation. The court deadlocked ...

A new marker remembering Native American history has been added at State Fair Park. Part of the grounds was once a burial site for many native people of Wisconsin. These sites were historically ...

SHEBOYGAN — Well before white man came to North America, around 700 B.C., big changes happened when plants and animals were intentionally cared for. Early communities rose out of Woodland Indians of ...

CLAYTON, Iowa (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park’s visitor center along the Mississippi ...