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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Kathio Historic District

For Students 9th - 10th
The Kathio Historic District preserves habitation sites and mound groups, believed to date between 3000 BC and 1750 AD, that document Sioux Indian culture and Ojibwe-Sioux relationships. The park contains 19 identified archaeological...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas: Eaker Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Archaeological site; shows evidence of pre-historic Nodena populations and also Quapaw occupation.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Gunther Island Site 67

For Students 9th - 10th
An archaeological site surrounding a Wiyot shell midden, located in Tolowot, on Indian Island in Humboldt Bay near Eureka, California. This site helped define the Gunther Pattern in archaeology and was also the site of the 1860 Wiyot...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: St. Croix Boom Site

For Students 9th - 10th
The St. Croix Boom Site is located on the St. Croix River upstream of Stillwater, Minnesota. The site was founded by Stillwater lumber barons, including Isaac Staples, in 1856 after the demise of the original St. Croix Boom Company,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota: Bloom Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This fortified archaeological site preserves the remains of about 25 rectangular houses dating to c.1000 CE. The site also once contained several burial mounds, which were later destroyed by cultivation. Site was perhaps occupied by...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Bottle Creek Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This archaeological site contains eighteen mounds from the Mississippian cultural period. Located on Mound Island within the Mobile-Tensaw river delta, the site was occupied between AD 1250 and 1550. Scholars believe that it functioned...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: Old Sitka Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Also known as the Redoubt St. Archangel Michael Site, this was the site of a Russian-American Company settlement, established in 1799 and destroyed by Tlingit attack in 1802.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Chucalissa Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This archaeological mound complex dates from the Walls Phase (approximately 15th century) of the Mississippian period. Its well-preserved historic materials include architecture, flora, fauna, and human skeletal remains.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: American Flag Raising Site

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1867, site of Russian flag lowering and American flag raising marking the transfer of Alaska to the U.S.; in 1959, after Alaska admitted as 49th state, site of first official raising of 49-star U.S. flag; also called Castle Hill.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Borax Lake Site

For Students 9th - 10th
The archaeological type site of the unique Paleo-Indian Clovis people known as the Post Pattern. This site extended their known range and introduced an unusual lake shore dwelling population.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Folsom Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Archaeological site; type site for the Folsom tradition.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi: Winterville Site

For Students 9th - 10th
A Plaquemine culture archaeological site.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Fort Toulouse Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Fort Toulouse served as the easternmost outpost of colonial French Louisiana. It was established in 1717 at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, and was abandoned in 1763, after the Treaty of Paris. Andrew Jackson...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota: Verendrye Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An image of the Verendrye Site.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Iowa: Blood Run Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An archaeological site, overlapping into South Dakota.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Ohio: Sunwatch Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An image of the Sunwatch Site.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii: Honokohau Settlement

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of an ancient Hawaiian settlement; includes fishponds, kahua (house site platforms), ki?i pohaku (petroglyphs), holua (stone slide) and heiau (religious site).
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Fort Mitchell Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Fort Mitchell represents three periods of interaction with Native Americans. The first period is the martial aspect of Manifest Destiny, when the Creek Indian Nation was defeated and forced to concede land.; the second represents the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Fort Bayard Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of an 1866 post of Buffalo Soldiers.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Ludlow Tent Colony Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of 1914 miners' strike that culminated in Ludlow Massacre.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota: Crow Creek Site

For Students 9th - 10th
An image of the Crow Creek Site.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Shiloh Indian Mounds Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the largest remaining fortified Mississippian ceremonial mound complex in the Tennessee Valley, including 6 Mississippian temple mounds, one Woodland burial mound, a village site, and a palisade foundation.