Mission Creek Cemetery

Urban Ecosystems was contracted by MnDOT at the request of the Fond Du Lac Band of Ojibwe to conduct a restoration design process for the recently disturbed burial site along highway 23. The project is currently going out for construction bid after a successful community engagement and design process. This project required a native cultural understanding paired with the technical skills of a landscape architect. There are other layers of historic and cultural meaning embedded in this landscape that must be recognized on an equal footing with the modern property law, rights-of-way, and biophysical context. This landscape is imbued with cultural meaning that transcends the legal boundaries of the site.