Indigenous People’s Day Hike

Description

The Indigenous Peoples of North America have always claimed Milwaukee as their own. Known as the “gathering place by the waters,” the “good earth” (or good land), or simply the “gathering place,” Indigenous groups such as the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa (Ottawa), Fox, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sauk and Oneida have all called Milwaukee their home at some point in the last three centuries. 

Some 9,000 Native Americans from diverse tribes and nations call Milwaukee county home today including the Stockbridge-Munsee and Brothertown Nation, and outer-Wisconsin peoples like the Lakota and Dakota (Sioux), First Nations, Creek, Chickasaw, Sac, Meskwaki, Miami, Kickapoo, Micmac and Cherokee, among others.

Join us on this hike through Lakeshore State Park to honor the peoples who first lived on this land and to celebrate the vibrant communities living here today.

Meet at the North Entrance, just next to Discovery World.