10 Historical Sites Significant to Native American Culture in USA

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Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

This UNESCO World Heritage Site is famous for its cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloan people between 600 and 1300 AD.

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico

This park protects the remains of a major Chacoan cultural center that flourished between 850 and 1250 AD.

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Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

This site contains over 200 prehistoric mounds built by Native American people between 600 and 1400 AD.

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Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

This site preserves a Mississippian culture temple mound complex that was built between 1000 and 1200 AD.

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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona

This site protects the remains of a four-story Hohokam structure that was built between 1300 and 1450 AD.

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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado

This monument protects a vast area of land that contains over 6,000 archaeological sites, including cliff dwellings, mesa top villages, and rock art panels.

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Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona

This site protects a cliff dwelling that was built by the Sinagua people between 1100 and 1450 AD.

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Poverty Point State Historic Site, Louisiana

This site is one of the oldest and largest earthwork complexes in North America.

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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Ohio

This park protects the remains of a prehistoric culture that flourished in Ohio between 200 BC and 400 AD.

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Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota

This site protects the remains of several Mandan and Hidatsa villages that were occupied between 1762 and 1886 AD.

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