Native Americans

A Native American man plays a courting flute to woo his love to come and join him.

A family-owned and operated cultural center, Native food stand, and store offering a taste of local Indigenous history.

In 1838, 859 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their village to begin a grueling march to Kansas. This location marks the first death.

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.