SAFETY HARBOR ― Picnic shelter No. 9 has long been one of Philippe Park’s popular spots because of its neighboring playground. The people who held parties at the shelter and used the ...

Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and beans in earthen mounds they built on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The ...

In a nutshell Archaeologists discovered a massive 235-acre agricultural system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula using drone ...

Then in the 1920s, a chiropractor named Don Dickson dug open the mound, eventually exposing the remains of hundreds of Native Americans ... presented as a long-gone culture of Illinois Indians.

More than 900 Native American children ... the children and destroy their culture. Many of the children were buried in at least 74 marked and unmarked burial sites at 65 former schools across ...

Garman from their burial ... one day no Native American ancestors are insensitively displayed or forgotten in storage rooms to prioritizing our voices in discourses of history and culture ...

In 1997 the Illinois State Museum made the remains of about 120 Native Americans and more than 32,000 burial belongings ... Julia Jacobs is an arts and culture reporter who often covers legal ...

or protecting known burial sites. The best approach would be to cease developments and to allow the burials to remain in place, said Crystal Cavalier-Keck, a cofounder of the Native American ...

thinks there’s something way scarier — and a lot less harmful — than the ubiquitous “Native American burial grounds” trope you see in pop culture. European burial grounds, for one.

That summer, Marquette chronicled the locations and customs ... The Dickson family burial mound exhibit in the 1940s (Illinois Digital Archive, Illinois State Library) Federal records show that the ...

This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains ... what the museum presented as a long-gone culture of Illinois Indians.