Walkers visit burial mounds
Wed, 07/03/2024 - 1:13pm
By:
Patty Svien, Walking Lake Pepin
On Wednesday evening June 26, the Walking Lake Pepin (walkinglakepepin.com) group walkers travelled from Underwood Park down 10th Street to visit the site of Indian burial mounds on 10th Street near Mounds Court.
Katie Himanga, forester and local historian, was invited to talk to the walkers and tell the story of the indigenous people whose homeland was Lake City 1,500 years ago. The burial mounds on this site are sacred ground for the Dakota people, just as cemeteries are for all communities.
