MOUNDS is an ongoing creative research project of Maxwell Gray. He calls the project an experminetal digital documentary poetry project. You can learn more about the project and its subject matter at The Sundial from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University), and at Edge Effects from the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (University of Wisconsin—Madison). Special thanks to Dr. Geoffrey Way and Weishun Lu for serving as my editors there.
MOUNDS by Maxwell Gray is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Based on a work at https://madisonmounds.com.) Project research and development take place at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives and University of Wisconsin—Madison. Both institutions occupy ancestral Ho-Chunk land called Teejop (day-JOPE) ("Four Lakes"), where the Ho-Chunk people have lived and called home since time immemorial. Indeed, both institutions were founded upon exclusions and erasures of the Ho-Chunk and other Indigenous peoples. Today, the Ho-Chunk and other Indigenous peoples continue to have a special connection to the region's land and water, and to resist white settler colonialism and conquest in the state. The project is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections and objects. (Learn more about Cultural Institution (CI) notices at Local Contexts.)