Native Americans

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.

A museum displaying an impressive collection of pre-contact Makah artifacts.

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

A seven-foot-tall cast concrete Native American Chief stands on the south railing of the historic Commerce Street Bridge, commissioned in 1914.

A nearly 200-year-old Catholic mission built to serve the native people of Idaho.

Indiana’s largest prehistoric earthwork, aligned with the solstices.

The country’s largest collection of southwestern jewelry, along with contemporary Native American art.

This local museum documents centuries of history along the Mississippi, from mound builders to massive quakes.

An unusually European Pueblo church is actually the oldest Native American congregation in the United States.

A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

A group of monuments to the Cherokee origins of Tennessee.

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

The only Native American intaglio left in Wisconsin.

The Ayo Rock Formations stand out on the island of Aruba as a unique arrangement of giant boulders with interesting crawl spaces to explore.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.