By Brittany Dobbins
A project that’s been in the works at UW-Stevens Point for a few years will finally recognize who’s buried beneath the campus grounds.
A temporary marker was placed on UWSP’s campus in 2020. Now, the university is looking for artists, particularly those with Native American roots, to replace the temporary marker with a permanent piece of work that encapsulates the mass Native American burial site on its campus.
One Native American woman from the Oneida Nation said this project has been a long-time coming. “I’ve been talking to the university about this issue for several years,” Karen Ann Hoffman said.
People from the Ho-Chunk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Menominee tribes lived and later passed away from Scarlet Fever in the 1860s, on what would now be known as UWSP’s campus. Later, the city used it as a garbage site, which later the Stevens Point Normal School was built on and opened in 1894.
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