The Native history behind the unmarked pedestrian bridge in Milwaukee's McKinley Park

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In 1971, Indigenous activists ripped the plywood off the abandoned Coast Guard station in Milwaukee's McKinley Park and occupied it. They successfully shaped the future, and a mysterious bridge remains.

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