User:Kaljumaegi/Indian Mounds Park (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
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Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six prehistoric Native American burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River. The oldest mounds were constructed 1,500–2,000 years ago by people of the Hopewell tradition. Later the Mdewakanton Dakota people interred their dead there as well. At least 31 more mounds were destroyed by proto-archaeologists, recreational looting, and general Euro-American settler incursions in the late 19th century, including the development of the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul. They were the tallest Native American mounds in Minnesota or Wisconsin (except for the unique 45-foot (14 m) Grand Mound outside International Falls, Minnesota), and comprise one of the northwesternmost Hopewellian sites in North America.[1] Indian Mounds Regional Park is a component of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park System. The Mounds Group is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] The 2014 nomination document provides a description of the archaeology and the context.[3]
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- ^ Nelson, Paul D. (2008-05-20). "St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds" (Document).
{{cite document}}: Cite document requires|publisher=(help); Unknown parameter|access-date=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|url=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|volume=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|work=ignored (help) - ^ Anderson, Jim (13 July 2014). "St. Paul mounds find their ground on National Register of Historic Places". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/14000140.pdf [bare URL]