shaped like spirits or animals and functionally placed. Experts have identified the natives responsible for these mounds as, simply put, effigy mound builders of the woodlands people. They thrived on ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located ... Historians believe the animal mounds could have been meant to tell the stories ...

Little Bear Effigy Mound is pictured at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in 2004. The mound shows a four-legged animal and is outlined in small pebbles. The monument was designated in 1949 and ...

Although our family has visited dozens of parks from Maine to California to Utah to Montana to Florida to Texas, one of our favorite places in the National Park System is Effigy Mounds National ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument ranger Brian Gibbs, announcing the news in another Facebook post, said he'll be back in uniform on Monday, helping educate visitors about the Native American ...

He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast ... that form shapes of animals. The 41-year-old father learned of his termination on Valentine's ...