Wisconsin Effigy Mounds

Just in time to help you plan your summer roadtrip, Professor Michael P. Gueno returns to share his passion and expertise on Wisconsin's amazing Effigy Mounds. Effigy mounds (raised piles of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, human, or other figure & often containing one or more human burials) are considered by scholars to have been built primarily for spiritual purposes. Most, however, also seem to have fulfilled a burial mound function. Native American societies in Wisconsin built more effigy mounds than did those in any other region of North America. Dr. Gueno is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy & Religious Studies Department at the UW-Whitewater.

A Fairhaven Lecture Series presentation.