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Dtesmoac -> Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 7:46:57 PM)

Where are the best native american sites to visit in the Mid West to discover / see some of the heritage and history? Particularly in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Minnesotta, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska areas ?

 



luckydog1 -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 7:53:48 PM)

The Black Hills region in the Dakotas is an amazing place.



stef -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 8:02:36 PM)

Yes, it certainly is.  I had the pleasure of spending 5 days with two friends riding our motorcycles through the Black Hills and the Badlands in 1997 and it was an amazing trip.

~stef



Dtesmoac -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 8:08:35 PM)

Yes agree with you about the Black Hills I've been over their but didn't find many specific sites etc, there was one in Deadwood.
We went to the wounded knee  museum in Wall which is very good, but have found that generally there re not that many good locations to learn a little about the original Americans. Recently went to a site in New Mexico which was wonderful. 



texancutie -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 8:24:55 PM)

Well depending on when you are traveling through Wisconsin...a few branches of my tribe celebrate the Manomin Fest and Pow Wow in August.  It's the wild rice harvest.  Good time to be in Wisconsin....during the summer.  [;)]

There are some interesting historical sites as well....one of them is in Minnesota and has pictographs...think it is just called Jeffers Pictographs.  Oh there are also effigy mounds in Wisconsin.  Effigy mounds are in the shape of birds, animals and things.

Have fun!



texancutie -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/19/2007 8:32:16 PM)

Oh...the Apostle Islands and Madeline Island are absolutely gorgeous too.  Go if you can manage it.  You can google them online if you want and see what they look like.  I am glad I moved south for the warmer weather, but Texas just is not as beautiful as parts of Wisconsin and Michigan are.  At least not to me anyway.



UtopianRanger -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/20/2007 2:47:50 AM)

 
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ORIGINAL: Dtesmoac

Where are the best native american sites to visit in the Mid West to discover / see some of the heritage and history? Particularly in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Minnesotta, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska areas ?




Hey Dtesmoac....

You need to move over a few states from Wisconsin into the four state arena of Illinois, Missouri, Western Kentucky, and Arkansas.

This is the birth place of the Mississippian /Mound Builder culture. Missouri and Illinois were also home to a highly advanced, mid-late Woodland culture known as the Hopewell people/culture. Then moving farther back to early archaic period 8000-10,000 BC, the Dalton people/culture made their home in both states.

Then if you head down into the boot heel of Missouri and western Arkansas you run into a land home to the highly advanced, mound builder, Caddo and Quapaw cultures.

Here are some of the sites I highly recommend you visit:

Cahokia Mounds state historic park - Collinsville, Illinois

 The Cahokia mounds site was the biggest and most inhabited ancient city in this country. It's also home to a whole cluster of utilitarian and burial mounds, with the biggest being ''Monks Mound'', which is the largest man-made earthen mound north of Teotihuacán in Mexico.

The Cahokia mounds site has one of the top interactive museums/cultural centers in the United States.
www.cahokiamounds.com/virtual_tour.html

Dickson and Snyder sites, Lewiston, Illinois and Calhoun county Illinois :  Both sites were deeply inhabited by the Hopewell people /culture
www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/dickson/archaeology.htm

Olive Branch site - Southern Illinois

A site inhabited by the highly advanced Dalton people from the early archaic period.

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=545

The Mitchell site - SE South Dakota

A great site inhabited 1000A.D. by the Mandan people /culture
www.usd.edu/anth/orgs/mitch.html

All four sites are from three different time periods/cultures that span from 10,000 B.C. to around 1000 A.D. So you get a good mix of the early hunter /gather cultures to the more sophisticated non-utilitarian, ceramic-making, farming cultures.


Good luck.


- R




meatcleaver -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/20/2007 5:13:01 AM)

There is this just over the border.

http://travelvideo.tv/videos/saskatchewan/waneskewanheritageparkvideo.html



Dtesmoac -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/21/2007 4:13:16 PM)

Thanks for the suggestions I hope to get to Mitchel and possibly cahokiamounds

D



seeksfemslave -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/21/2007 4:50:29 PM)

How about that bridge with a transparent walk way that has been built sticking out over  the Grand Canyon.
Really Historical that is .

Very convenient if you wanted to pay a surprise visit to see  your ancestors.



Phoenix2raven -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/21/2007 5:11:02 PM)

South Dakota: The black hills. wounded knee monument. The pine ridge or rosebud reservation just to drive through. It will make you wonder why there is a third world country in America.  last but not least the bad lands there is a spirit on these lands thats indescribable. Pipe stone Minnesota is incredible as well. Safe journey  



stockingluvr54 -> RE: Best Native American sites to visit (3/21/2007 5:14:43 PM)

Not mid-west but Mesa-Verde National Park in sw colorado is a real trip......fucking unbelievable how those guys built those dwellings in the cliffs!!!!

Another one I liked was Cheif Josephs grave in Nespelam Wa.....It's not a big tourist trap...in fact I had to ask the local natives where the cemetary was in order to find the grave. At first I was bummed at the unkept grown over cemetary and the dirt road leading to it. Couldn't believe that such a great man was in an unkept cemetary grown over with Knapweed. Bothered me for a few days.....then it dawned on me????? That's the way Joseph would have wanted it....nice and peaceful instead of some tourist type place.....



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