Sarah Kanouse recounts Maa Wákąčąk’s histories of conservation and conquest are anything but “past,” and continue to overlap and exert anthropocenic influence on this sacred earth.
During the 20th century, the ground known to the Ho-Chunk Nation as Maa Wákąčąk, one of the tribe’s most sacred sites, became home to one of the US military’s largest ammunition producing facilities in the world. Today, the site is broadly presented and perceived as a site of conservation. Yet, as Sarah Kanouse for Temporary continent. recounts here following a trip to Maa Wákąčąk in the frame of Field Station 2, these histories of conservation and conquest are anything but “past,” and continue to overlap and exert anthropocenic influence on this sacred earth.