Tipsinah Mounds Traditional Cache
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There is a variety of things to do at this public park including fishing, swimming, boating, volleyball, and camping. Plan to spend the day or the weekend enjoying all that the Minnesota outdoors has to offer.
The peninsula on the south side of Pomme de Terre Lake in Grant County was a natural shelter for the Chippewa Indians. The Pomme de Terre River and the peninsula provided a natural buffer from prairie fires and security from threatening enemies as well as good hunting and fishing.
In the area which is now Tipsinah Mounds Campground, archaeologists have found bone tools and flint chips dating back to 9000 B.C. Nearly 40 Indian burial mounds can be found east of the entrance road to the campground that are believed to have been built from 1000 A.D to 1600 A.D.
The word Tipsinah comes from the Indian name for a turnip like plant. Later the French called it Pomme de Terre which means apple of the earth.
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