Native Americans

The name is a dubious distinction for the man who ordered a full retreat during what is considered the first engagement of the Black Hawk War.

Solitary stones tell the story of an early battle in one of colonial America’s most brutal and forgotten wars.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

The Princess Mishawaka statue and story honor the legend of a Shawnee Indian heroine and promoted tourism in the 1930s.

Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.

The Native American leader is commemorated by a sculpture by Peter Toth.

A gallery displaying the psychedelic-fueled art of the indigenous Huichol people.

This statue of a Native American figure forlornly looking at the passing of a way life has been on the move.

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

Most of this “research national monument” still lies buried beneath the earth.

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

This historic trading post has been serving the community since 1913.

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

Victory on this battlefield catapulted William Henry Harrison to the presidency in 1840.

One of “America’s Most Endangered Historic Places” is a building shaped like a giant turtle.