Native American Sacred Sites in the USA
From natural wonders like Crater Lake to mysterious man-made monuments like the Cahokia Mounds, explore some of the sites of the USA that were and are revered as holy ground by Native Americans.
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Bighorn Medicine Wheel Constructed around 700 years ago in the Wyoming mountains and aligned with the stars, Bighorn is the most important of several medicine wheels in the American West. |
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Cahokia Mounds The center of Mississipian Indian culture from 900 to 1300 AD, Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian community in North America and produced several ritual earthwork mounds. |
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Crater Lake This spectacular mountain lake in the Cascade Mountains is widely renowned for its great depth and beauty. It is considered sacred by the Klamath Indians. |  |
Mount Shasta This tall peak in the Cascade Mountains has long been sacred to Native Americans of the area. Today it is also sacred to New Age followers as a source of mystical power. |
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Ocmulgee National Monument A national park in Macon, Georgia with burial/temple mounds and an earth lodge built by the Mississippian people around 900-950 AD. |
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Serpent Mound A man-made earthwork in the shape of a long, uncoiling serpent nearly a quarter of a mile long. Created between 1000 and 1500 AD for unknown purposes, it is now protected in a state park in Ohio. |
| Superstition Mountain This mysterious volcanic rock formation in Arizona is the subject of many Native American legends and contains ancient hieroglyphs. |
