Sacred Places Native American Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin
The State of Wisconsin is home to most of the Effigy Mounds found in North America. Effigy Mounds, in the shapes of various animals (birds, bears, panthers) as well as simple shapes such as conical and linear mounds, once numbered 10,000 or more, distributed across the rivers banks and lake shores of the state. Today, most of these mounds have been destroyed, obliterated by 19th and 20th century farming and urban development. In the 21st century we must continue to fight to ensure the remaining mound sites, the final resting place of countless first residents of the area, are safe from descration and destruction.
Today, archeological sites and indigenous sacred places are subject to destruction and desecration at an alarming rate. Some of the destruction is still due to modern expansion, but increasingly there is greater pressure from radical religious and political organizations seeking their total obliteration. We cannot afford to lose any more of Wisconsin's sacred places to any intentional destructive agents.