Brian Gibbs, a park ranger at Iowa's Effigy Mounds National Monument, says he has his job back after being laid off on Valentine's Day as part of a Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

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 ...

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 ...

“They’re telling you about the person inside, that they’re an important person and that they belong to an important family.” People who were buried in effigy ... view, the meanings of the ...