native-american
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One thing we noticed first up at Wounded Knee, particularly around the memorial, but then again today at Devil’s Tower, were pieces of brightly coloured cloth tied to the branches of trees. I realised that these were Native American prayer ties. Prayer ties, deeply rooted in the spiritual traditions of Plains tribes such as the
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Today, we drove through the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and stopped at the Wounded Knee Memorial. The memorial site was small, and apart from a sign in the car park, there was little to indicate to passersby that this was the site of an important event in American history. Entering the town of
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As we neared Kansas City, we decided to detour and visit the restored nineteenth-century Fort Osage. Perched on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River in Jackson County, Missouri, Fort Osage is a reconstruction of the original fort providing a representation of what the site would have looked like in the early 1800s. It is striking how
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We visited Cahokia. The site, located about 8 miles northwest of downtown St. Louis, stands as one of the most remarkable pre-Columbian archaeological sites in North America. It was once the epicenter of a powerful Native American civilization, and around the time of the Norman Conquest, it had a population larger than that of London
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