Devil's Lake's landscape is filled with remnants of human history at the park. These remnants can be read like a history book, with each page revealing a different era. From ancient effigy mounds sculpted by Native peoples thousands of years…
If you set up a time machine at Devil's Lake State Park and traveled backwards over the last 150 years, you'd witness a fascinating transformation. A Journey Through Time As the years flew by in reverse, you'd see land clearing,…
From today, going back far into the haze of time, the Ho-Chunk people lived on this land. Just 200 years ago, around 1823, Devil’s Lake, or “Tee Wakącąk”, was still a sacred space known only to the Ho-Chunk people. We…
With the "Effigy Mounds: Sacred Sites and Native Arts" program coming up tomorrow, Thursday, August 10, from 2 pm to 4 pm at Devil's Lake State Park, I thought I'd try to wrangle out a timeline that might help "time-confused"…
Did you know that every Thursday we share a historic Devil's Lake State Park postcard, photo, stereogram, or other bric-a-brac from our personal collection on our social media pages? If if you're interested in these little slices of Devil's Lake…
Yesterday was Indigenous Peoples' Day of course and many of us know of the importance of Devil's Lake to local indigenous culture and we may even know a bit about the effigy mounds within the park. What we often don't…