Any person who intentionally digs up a cataloged burial site in Wisconsin faces up to a $10,000 fine and anyone who benefits financially from the excavation faces up to a year in prison.

Today, eighteen of the original thirty-four mounds remain, protected in tranquil Indian Mound Park. In the 1920s, Dr. Gerend again did extensive documentation of the existing mounds in the county.

Madison — A state panel is poised to call for clearer rules for protecting Wisconsin's Indian burial mounds, drawing praise from some advocates for the ancient sites and objections from some ...

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 the Wisconsin ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A concrete company can't dig up American Indian burial mounds located within its southern Wisconsin quarry, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday without any explanation.

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States ...

Wisconsin once home to tens of thousands of burial mounds Some of the earliest burial mounds built by ancient Native Americans, which were conical shaped, date back to roughly 500 BC.

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 ...

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 ...

The six burial mounds at St. Paul’s Indian Mounds Park are among the oldest human-made structures in Minnesota. Along with mounds in Crow Wing, Itasca, and Beltrami Counties, they are some of ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bill moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would more clearly define protections for Indian burial mounds. The bill would specify when the Wisconsin Historical Society ...