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area Notes References Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park: Navajo Nation: Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park: Navajo Nation: Tseyi' Dine' Heritage Area – Cottonwood Campground Navajo Nation: Canyon de Chelly National Monument: Navajo Nation: Officially a unit of the National Park Service, but entirely owned by the Navajo Tribal Trust of the Navajo
Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos. In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies ...
Native American heritage sites are sites specifically created in many National Park Sites in the United States to commemorate the contribution of the Native American cultures. The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European or East coast explorers and settlers. In this sense ...
Satwiwa and surrounding areas have been inhabited by the Chumash people for over 10,000 years. The site of the former Native American village has been developed as a nature center. It includes a Chumash Indian demonstration area, where Native American docents or park rangers are available for presentations during weekends.
Native Americans would often play games to "ceremoniously bring luck like rain, good harvests, drive away evil spirits, or just bring people together for a common purpose". [2] Some games were meant for children, teaching skills such as hand-eye coordination, discipline, and the importance of challenging work and respect.
There are twenty-six known Chumash pictograph sites with the national recreation area, all sacred to traditional Native American Indians, and include some that are among the most spectacular found anywhere. [60] These pictographs – along with other sites – have been described by the National Park Service as "unique and a significant world ...
Hunters and gatherers such as the historical Southern Paiute and the much older Archaic, or Desert Culture Native Americans, have successively occupied this area. [3] As many as six different Native American cultures may have been present at Red Rock over the millennia. The following chronology is an approximation, from the present to ancient ...
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.