Kohler’s Golfing on Graves Project

Respect for the dead is a universal value — or so we thought.  Across Wisconsin, small family cemeteries are protected with care.  Yet for Native burial grounds, the Kohler Company and Sheboygan city leaders are ready to bulldoze that principle – literally.   Kohler plans to build a luxury golf course in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on land eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and home to Native burial mounds.  A federally mandated 2018 study discovered human remains in seven locations on the course plan.  Since the courts revoked their wetland permit, Kohler is redesigning the course to avoid the wetlands — but what ...