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The Great Osage Trail, also known as the Osage Trace or the Kaw Trace, was one of the more well-known Native American trails through the countryside of the Midwest and Plains States of the U.S., pathways blazed by herds of buffalo or other migrating wildlife (Medicine Trails). Map of most of the Santa Fe Trail in 1845.
Greene County, Missouri, United States: Coordinates: Area: 400.2 acres (162.0 ha) [1] Established: 1991 [2] Governing body: Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Website: Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
The Arrow Rock area was where the historic Santa Fe Trail crossed the Missouri River, and was thus a key stopping point during the settlement of the American West. The 260-acre (1.1 km 2 ) historic district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963.
Sugarloaf Mound is the only one that remains of the original approximately 40 mounds in St. Louis. The mounds were constructed by Native Americans that lived in the St. Louis area from about 600 to 1300 AD, the same civilization that built the mounds at Cahokia. Sugarloaf Mound is on the National Register of Historic Places. [7]
The Utz Site is located in central Missouri, north of the city of Marshall and south of Miami. It is roughly 200 acres (81 ha) in size. It is roughly 200 acres (81 ha) in size. A small portion is in an outlying part of Van Meter State Park , whose main feature is the so-called Old Fort ; [ 3 ] the rest is on private land. [ 4 ]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
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Homestead laws depleted Native American resources as much of the land they relied on was taken by the federal government and sold to settlers. [7] Native ancestral lands had been limited through history, mainly through land allotments and reservations, causing a gradual decrease in this indigenous land. Many of these land-grabs occurred during ...