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WHIP Helps Clean-up Sacred Burial Mounds for Ho-Chunk Nation
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(above) sign marking the site of the Ho
Chunk sacred burial mounds (NRCS photo – click to enlarge)
invasive trees and brush are being cleared and oak savannah prairie
restored to bring these conical mounds back to their original setting (NRCS photo – click to enlarge)
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The NRCS Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) will help restore the
Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds that had been long overgrown with brush, pine,
and invasive species. The Ho-Chunk Indian Nation assumed ownership of the sacred
site from the Wisconsin Department. of Transportation this month and will
restore it as an interpretive educational site. WHIP will help the
Ho-Chunk remove the brush and non-native trees and replant prairie grasses
to restore the oak savannah.
The 40-acre Columbia County site that sits on a bluff overlooking the Wisconsin
River just east of the Wisconsin Dells, contains 22 mounds, including 2 bear mounds, a bird mound, panther
mound, 12 conical mounds, and 5 linear mounds. The mound group is representative
of those built by the Effigy Mound Culture, dating between 600-1000 A.D.
Generally, there is usually only a single burial per mound. At this site
however, a dozen or more burials
have been found in some of the mounds.
Your contact is Twyla Kite, NRCS
district conservationist, at 608-742-5361, ext. 112.
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