you learn something new every day
On Tuesday, I found out that my city :
Lake Park
Lake Park, on Lake Michigan, preserves one of the few remaining mounds in Milwaukee. The low conical mound is located on a high bluff overlooking the lake in the northeastern corner of the park. It is two feet high and forty feet in diameter and was one of a number of like-size mounds that were once in the park area. The mound is undated, but is believed to have been built during the Middle Woodland state, between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400.
Several sources say that the lake park location is one of two or three remaining burial mounds in the city, however, this newspaper clipping from 1923 suggest otherwise;
And you can see how concentrated these spots are on this map
Kletzsch Park
6560 N. Milwaukee River Parkway, Glendale
Burial mounds in Kletzsch Park attest to the time when Potawatomi Indian villages could be seen in the area that is now Glendale. In 1833, Potawatomi and Winnebago tribes ceded their land to the United States and moved west to the banks of the Mississippi. Before then, only a handful of white settlers occupied the area.
Lizard Mound County Park, north of West Bend
The trail is only about a mile, but it goes past 28 American Indian effigy mounds, which are 3 to 4 feet high and shaped like birds and animals.
Human remains just part of underground work
Surveyors will help catalog Indian burial site
Burial mound suggests complexity
Indian Mound at Wisconsin State Fair Park
I may not have any personal responsibility but this is really disturbing to me, that I could be living on top of, surrounded by sacred gravesites. How would most Americans feel if the so called "illegal" immigrants took over and built on top of Arlington National Cemetery? Perhaps what anti-immigration protesters fear most; karma. Karma is unavoidable.
Lake Park
Lake Park, on Lake Michigan, preserves one of the few remaining mounds in Milwaukee. The low conical mound is located on a high bluff overlooking the lake in the northeastern corner of the park. It is two feet high and forty feet in diameter and was one of a number of like-size mounds that were once in the park area. The mound is undated, but is believed to have been built during the Middle Woodland state, between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400.
Several sources say that the lake park location is one of two or three remaining burial mounds in the city, however, this newspaper clipping from 1923 suggest otherwise;
And you can see how concentrated these spots are on this map
Kletzsch Park
6560 N. Milwaukee River Parkway, Glendale
Burial mounds in Kletzsch Park attest to the time when Potawatomi Indian villages could be seen in the area that is now Glendale. In 1833, Potawatomi and Winnebago tribes ceded their land to the United States and moved west to the banks of the Mississippi. Before then, only a handful of white settlers occupied the area.
Lizard Mound County Park, north of West Bend
The trail is only about a mile, but it goes past 28 American Indian effigy mounds, which are 3 to 4 feet high and shaped like birds and animals.
Human remains just part of underground work
Surveyors will help catalog Indian burial site
Burial mound suggests complexity
Indian Mound at Wisconsin State Fair Park
I may not have any personal responsibility but this is really disturbing to me, that I could be living on top of, surrounded by sacred gravesites. How would most Americans feel if the so called "illegal" immigrants took over and built on top of Arlington National Cemetery? Perhaps what anti-immigration protesters fear most; karma. Karma is unavoidable.