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Museum outlines Lakeshore Park interpretive signage; archaeological finds and tribal sensitivities limit imagery
Summary
Museum staff proposed five interpretive signs for Lakeshore Park covering Menominee and Ho-Chunk ancestral lands, archaeological excavations, glacial history, golf-course history and working waterways. Staff said many finds are fragmentary and images tied to burials require tribal permissions under federal law.
Emily Rock, assistant museum director and chief curator, presented a five-sign interpretive plan for Lakeshore Park on Jan. 12 that would cover Menominee and Ho-Chunk ancestral lands, results of archaeological excavations, glacial landscape history, Lakeshore Municipal Golf Course history and the area’s logging and waterways industry.
"What is now Lakeshore Park had long been the home of the native people of Wisconsin...The ancestors of the Menominee and Ho Chunk lived in a village on the banks of Lake Butte Amore at least 2,500 years ago," Rock read…
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