After more than a century the Wisconsin Point burial grounds are being returned to the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa.
In 1918, about 180 Ojibwe graves were removed from the burial grounds on the estuary to the nearby St. Francis cemetery.
Superior Council President Jenny Van Sickle calls the Wisconsin Point location “sacred ground.”
The graves were moved so a steel plant could be built there but the project never got off the ground.
A ceremony marking the official reclamation will be held at Black Bear Casino Resort August 18th.
