In many indigenous American traditions, this huge and powerful being appears in the night sky as the Milky Way. Ohio has only two effigy mounds, mounds built in the shapes of animals ...

That took some doing, said Richard Masters, an Iowa native who designed the image on the soon-to-be released Effigy ... mounds with a sense of the scale of their natural setting with the sky ...

If you’ve never been to Effigy Mounds, it’s definitely worth the ... participants will be treated to a Mother-Nature-lit view of bluffs and river valley. The round-trip hike follows a wood ...