Wisconsin Giant Animals

What are They?

• burial sights for their dead
• Used to express their spiritual animal or plant
• helps tell their story in life
• some used mounds to build temples and homes.

Bird, snake, and deer mounds.

animals and plants that were built.

• Deer
• Bear
• coyote
• rabbit
• ferns
• trees (oak and maple)
• birds (eagle, cardinal, hawk, and woodpeckers)

MOUND TEMPLE

HOw were their temples built?

• logs for support
• dirt/mud
• Rocks
• some temples had under ground level, mid level and an upper level.
• aztecks used these also

Keweenaw tribe

About them

• they have land near lake superior at the peak of michigan
• some traveled to northern Wisconsin and settled there.
• they have a burial sight in superior
• built a mound the shape of a bear.
• They have also built a couple temple mounds around lake superior.(only one remains)

sources
"Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources." Cultural Resources - Burial Mounds - Wisconsin DNR. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Jan. 2017.
"Effigy Mounds Culture." Effigy Mounds Culture |Turning Points in Wisconsin History | Wisconsin Historical Society. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Jan. 2017.
"Wisconsin Historical Society." Newspaper Article/Clipping | Wisconsin Historical Society. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2017.
Birmingham, Robert A., and Leslie E. Eisenberg. Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin, 2000. Print.