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This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's ...
The Museum of Indian Culture was originally founded as the Lenni Lenape Historical Society's Museum of Indian Culture in 1980, the oldest exclusively Native American museum in Pennsylvania, with a focus on educating Pennsylvanians on the state's indigenous people. [3] The museum was founded by Dorothy Schiavone and her daughter, Carla Messinger.
This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; Allegheny Mountain (Pennsylvania) Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River
Logstown and other Native American villages, most circa 1750s. The riverside village of Logstown (1726?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue [1]: 356 (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the ...
Madame Montour's village of Otstonwakin or Ostuagy was an important location during the settlement of what is now Lycoming County.Her village at the mouth of Loyalsock Creek on the West Branch Susquehanna River was a stopping point for the Moravian missionaries who were spreading the gospel throughout the wilderness of Pennsylvania during the 1740s.
Around 1727 the first Native American settlement was made in the Ligonier Valley, near the confluence of Mill Creek and Loyalhanna Creek. The village was still relatively new when the first traders came in 1732. In the next quarter-century the great struggle for mid-America developed between the English and the French.
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Pennsylvania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.