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Native American sacred sites in United States
Explore Native American sacred sites in United States: pilgrimage places, living traditions, heritage landmarks, and sacred landscapes.
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Marksville mounds
Marksville, Louisiana, United States
For two thousand years, the mounds at Marksville have held the dead. The Marksville culture that built them was connected by trade and ceremony to peoples across North...
Kincaid Mounds, Brookport, Illinois
Brookport, Illinois, United States
For 350 years, Kincaid Mounds served as the heart of a chiefdom where thousands gathered for ceremony, governance, and trade....
Island Lake, Colorado
Silverton, Colorado, United States
Island Lake near Silverton offers what might be called a contemporary nature pilgrimage....
Norton Mound Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
On the banks of the Grand River near Grand Rapids, eleven earthen mounds rise from the landscape, remnants of a burial ground created over 1,500 years ago....
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, Ohio
Moundsville, West Virginia, United States
Rising sixty-two feet above the Ohio River valley, Grave Creek Mound stands as one of the largest conical burial mounds in North America....
Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
Mosca, Colorado, United States
The Great Sand Dunes are cultural property to 18 Indigenous tribes who gather sand here for healing rituals and sand paintings....
Etowah mounds, Georgia
Cartersville, Georgia, United States
In the rolling hills of northwest Georgia, six earthen mounds rise above the Etowah River where the Mississippian people built one of the most powerful chiefdoms in...
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Joshua Tree, California, United States
Rising from the meeting place of two deserts, Joshua Tree's otherworldly landscape of giant granite boulders and twisted trees has drawn seekers for millennia....
Enchanted Rock, Texas
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States
Rising from the Texas Hill Country, this massive pink granite dome has drawn humans for over ten thousand years....
Aztalan Mounds, Wisconsin
Lake Mills, Wisconsin, United States
On the banks of the Crawfish River, platform mounds rise from prairie grass where they have stood for a millennium....
Effigy Indian Mound, Iowa
Allamakee County, Iowa, United States
High above the Mississippi River, on bluffs overlooking one of America's great waterways, ancestors built the earth into the shapes of bears, birds, and water spirits....
Blue Lake, New Mexico
Taos County, New Mexico, United States
High in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, an alpine lake sits at 11,300 feet, closed to all but the people who emerged from its waters....
Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
Collinsville, Illinois, United States
Eight miles from downtown St. Louis, across the Mississippi, 70 earthen mounds mark what was once the largest city north of Mexico....
Garden of the Gods, Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Garden of the Gods rises from the Colorado plains as one of America's most sacred landscapes, a place where the Ute people believe humanity was created....
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