<P> Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul , Minnesota , United States , featuring six prehistoric Native American burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River . The oldest mounds were constructed 1,500 -- 2,000 years ago by people of the Hopewell tradition . Later the Dakota people interred their dead there as well . At least 31 more mounds were destroyed by development in the late 19th century . They were the tallest Native American mounds in Minnesota or Wisconsin ( except for the unique 45 - foot ( 14 m ) Grand Mound outside International Falls , Minnesota ) , and comprise one of the northwesternmost Hopewellian sites in North America . Indian Mounds Regional Park is a component of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area , a unit of the National Park System . The Mounds Group is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The 2014 nomination document provides a description of the archaeology and the context . </P>
<P> Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul , Minnesota , United States , featuring six prehistoric Native American burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River . The oldest mounds were constructed 1,500 -- 2,000 years ago by people of the Hopewell tradition . Later the Dakota people interred their dead there as well . At least 31 more mounds were destroyed by development in the late 19th century . They were the tallest Native American mounds in Minnesota or Wisconsin ( except for the unique 45 - foot ( 14 m ) Grand Mound outside International Falls , Minnesota ) , and comprise one of the northwesternmost Hopewellian sites in North America . Indian Mounds Regional Park is a component of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area , a unit of the National Park System . The Mounds Group is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The 2014 nomination document provides a description of the archaeology and the context . </P>
who built most of the mounds in mounds park
who built most of the mounds in mounds park
prehistoric Native American
prehistoric Native American