Repatriating the Ancestors: Anthropologists work with tribes to return remains of ancestors and sacred objects

Burial mounds created by Native people can be found throughout Wisconsin. Rolling softly along high points in the landscape and often shaded by ancient bur oak trees, intact burial mounds contain both ancestral remains and …

Meet Carolee Dodge Francis, the first Native woman to chair a department at UW–Madison

For the last 30 years, Carolee Dodge Francis has held influential roles in public health and health education in Native American communities and higher education. Now she is adding another first to her career as the first Native woman to chair a department on the UW–Madison campus.