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Hidden beneath a grassy mound at a city park on Madison’s north side is what people believe to be a 1,000-year-old burial site of generations of citizens of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The city’s Parks Division plans to redevelop that area as part of a comprehensive, multi-year plan to bring more greenspace to the nearby residential housing developments. Meanwhile, state historians are cataloging the protected burial site, which is within Hartmeyer-Roth Park…