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.
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