Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native American site in the midwestern U.S. is ...

Amy Rosebrough visited Madison, Wisconsin’s, Native American Effigy Mounds and talked about what they reveal about the early cultures that l… read more Amy Rosebrough visited Madison ...

Scattered across Wisconsin, effigy mounds are fragments of an ancient culture spanning from about 400 to 1200 AD. To the unobservant eye, they only appear to be elevated land. But the mounds are what ...

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This raptor-with-human-head effigy pipe, which dates to between 1200 ... is a cluster of 12 earthen mounds built up by Native Americans belonging to a broad spread of tribes collectively known ...

READ MORE: Pipestone Co. Pipe Maker Keeps Sacred Tradition Alive She said there have been efforts in the past to eliminate Native American language and culture, including government actions that ...