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UW-Stevens Point marks Native American burial site on campus
January 1, 2021 GMT
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) A memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus now marks the land as a gravesite for Native Americans buried there in 1863.
Karen Ann Hoffman helped lead the effort and told Wisconsin Public Radio it’s a “hard-won first step.”
By 1863, hundreds of Indigenous people of several tribes were living in a camp in what is now Stevens Point. The members of the group were essentially refugees displaced by American settlers.
As many as 100 Indigenous people died when the scarlet fever swept through the camp. About 30 years later, the university purchased the land where its campus is today.
A memorial marker will be placed on the UWSP campus to acknowledge the indigenous people buried there.
According to a press release from UWSP, recent historical research shows the campus encompasses what was a Native American camp and burial ground of the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe and Potawatomi.
In the 1860 s, Scarlet Fever devastated the diverse group, and the mass burial is located on what is now UWSP.
The memorial marker will be installed during a ceremony at noon on Thursday, December 17, and is one step in acknowledgement, according to UWSP Chancellor Bernie Patterson. It will be in place while an appropriate permanent memorial is created.