You Are A Time Traveler…
From today, going back far into the haze of time, the Ho-Chunk people lived on this land. Just 200 years ago, around 1823, Devil’s Lake, or “Tee Wakącąk”, was still a sacred space known only to the Ho-Chunk people. We…
Effigy Mounds In Time
With the "Effigy Mounds: Sacred Sites and Native Arts" program coming up tomorrow, Thursday, August 10, from 2 pm to 4 pm at Devil's Lake State Park, I thought I'd try to wrangle out a timeline that might help "time-confused"…
#ThrowbackThursdays On Social Media
Did you know that every Thursday we share a historic Devil's Lake State Park postcard, photo, stereogram, or other bric-a-brac from our personal collection on our social media pages? If if you're interested in these little slices of Devil's Lake…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Display, Virtually.
Yesterday was Indigenous Peoples' Day of course and many of us know of the importance of Devil's Lake to local indigenous culture and we may even know a bit about the effigy mounds within the park. What we often don't…