Native American Heritage Sites (U.S. National Park Service)

Many National Park Sites commemorate the contribution of the Native American Culture(s). The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European explorers/settlers or east coast explorers and settlers. In this sense, Native Alaskans of both arctic and sub-arctic cultures are included with the American Indians of the continental United States. Native Hawaiians are included as the traditional cultures of the islands.

Many sites were created specifically to preserve the cultural remains cultures that no longer remain, Mesa Verde National Park or Russell Cave National Monument. Some tell the story of a vibrant culture that continues to contribute to the American culture, Canyon de Chelly National Monument. An yet others, commemorate American Indian cultures that contributed to the development of an area, Cape Cod National Seashore or were a part of greater events in American history, Pea Ridge National Military Park. The largest number, preserve the historical contributions of the Native Cultures through out time; Devils Tower National Monument, Pipestone National Moument, Honokohau National Historic Site.

Parks

Park	State	Tribal Affiliation(s)
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument	NE	(Lakota)
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument	TX	(Pueblo)
Arkansas Post National Memorial	AR	(Quapaw, Osage, Caddo)
Aztec Ruins National Monument	NM	(Ancestral Puebloan)
Badlands National Park	SD	(Lakota)
Bandelier National Monument	NM	(Ancestral Pueblo)
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site	CO	(Southern Cheyenne, Southern Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche)
Big Bend National Park	TX	(Jumano, Comanche, Kiowa, Apache)
Big Hole National Battlefield	MT	(Nez Perce)
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area	MT & WY	(Crow)
Big Thicket National Preserve	TX	(Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Atakapa)
Buffalo National River	AR	(Paleo, Archaic, Woodland/Mississippian)
Cabrillo National Monument	CA	(Kumeyaay)
Canaveral National Seashore	FL	(Timucuan)
Canyon de Chelly National Monument	AZ	(Ancestral Pueblo, Navajo)
Cape Cod National Seashore	MA	(Wampanoag)
Capitol Reef National Park	UT	(Ancestral Puebloan, Fremont)
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument	AZ	(Hohokam)
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument	FL	(Seminole)
Chaco Culture National Historical Park	NM	(Ancestral Pueblo, Pueblo, Navajo)
Chiricahua National Monument	AZ	(Apache)
Colonial National Historical Park (Jamestown),	VA	(17th-century Powhatans)
Coronado National Memorial, AZ (Zuni)
Cuyahoga Valley National Park,	OH	(Paleo, Archaic, Adena, Hopewell, Whittlessey)
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area,	PA/NJ	(Munsee)
DeSoto National Memorial,	FL	(Timucuan)
Devils Tower National Monument,	WY	(Northern Plains cultures including; Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crow, Arapaho, Shoshone, among others)
Effigy Mounds National Monument,	IA	(Red Ocher, Hopewell, Effigy Mounds Builders)
El Malpais National Monument,	NM	(Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni Pueblos; Ramah Navajos)
El Morro National Monument,	NM	(Ancestral Puebloan, Navajo, Zuni)
Everglades National Park,	FL	(Seminole)
Fort Bowie National Historic Site,	AZ	(Apache)
Fort Caroline National Memorial	FL	(Timucuan)
Fort Clatsop National Memorial	OR	(Clatsop, Chinook))
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site	NC	(Algonquian)
Fort Smith National Historic Site	AR	(Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw)
Fort Stanwix National Monument	NY	(Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora)
Fort Sumter National Monument	SC	(Seminole at Fort Moultrie)
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve	AK	(Nunamiut Eskimo, Kobuk Eskimo, Koyukon Athabascan Indians)
Gateway National Recreation Area	NY	(Lenape Nation, including Canarsie, Nyak)
Glacier National Park	MT	(Blackfeet, Salish-Kootenai, Flathead)
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	AZ	(Ancestral Puebloan)
Golden Gate National Recreation Area,	CA;	-(Ohlone); Marin Headlands (Coastal Miwok)
Grand Canyon National Park,	AZ	(ancestral Pueblo/Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Southern Paiutes, Havasupai, Hualapai)
Grand Portage National Monument,	MN	(Ojibway)
Grand Teton National Park,	WY	(Plains Indians, Shoshone, Blackfeet)
Great Sand Dunes National Monument,	CO	(Ute)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park,	TN	(Cherokee)
Guadalupe Mountains National Park,	TX	(Mescaleo Apache)
Haleakala National Park,	HI	(Kaloko)
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park,	HI	(Kaloko)
Homestead National Monument of America,	NE	(Great Plains nations, among others)
Honokohau National Historic Site,	HI	(Native Hawaiian culture)
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park,	OH	(Ohio Hopewell)
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,	AL	(Creek, Cherokee)
Hovenweep National Monument,	CO	(Anasazi/Pueblo culture)
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site,	AZ	(Navajo)
Isle Royale National Park,	MI	(Ojibwa)
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve,	LA	(Choctaw, Chitimacha, Tunica, Houma, Kosasati/Coushatta))
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,	MO	(Plains Indian people including Lakota, Osage, and Illini)
Katmai National Park and Preserve, AK (Yupik/Aleuts)
Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site,	ND	(Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara)
Lake Mead National Recreation Area,	NV	(Virgin River Anasazi; Mohave, Hualapai, Southern Paiute)
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area,	WA	(Colville Confederated Tribes, Spokane, Nez Perce)
Lava Beds National Monument,	CA	(Medoc)
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument,	MT	(Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Arikara)
Mammoth Cave National Park,	KY	(Early Woodland prehistoric culture)
Mesa Verde National Park,	CO	(Ancestral Puebloan People and 23 affiliated Native American groups)
Mojave National Preserve,	CA	(Piute, Chemehuevi, Mohave)
Montezuma Castle National Monument,	AZ	(Sinagua)
Natchez Trace Parkway,	MS/AL/TN	(Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee)
National Capital Parks East, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens,	DC	(Algonquin)
Natural Bridges National Monument,	UT	(Ancestral Puebloan)
Navajo National Monument,	AZ	(Ancestral Pueblo, Navajo)
Nez Perce National Historical Park,	ID	(Nez Perce)
North Cascades National Park,	WA	(Coast Salish/Upper Skagit, Chelan)
Ocmulgee National Monument,	GA	(Mississippian, Lamar, Creek)
Olympic National Park,	WA	(Elwha Klallam, Hoh, Jamestown S'Klallam, Makah, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Quileute, Quinault, Skokomish)
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument,	AZ	(Hohokam, O'odham)
Pea Ridge National Military Park,	AR	(Cherokee, Choctaw-Chickasaw)
Pecos National Historical Park,	NM	(Pueblo People)
Petroglyph National Monument,	NM	(Rio Grande Pueblo, Hopi, and Zuni)
Pipe Spring National Monument,	AZ	(Ancestral Puebloan, Southern Paiute, and Navajo)
Pipestone National Monument	MN	(Siouan groups)
Point Reyes National Seashore	CA	(Miwok)
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site	HI	(Native Hawaiian culture)
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park	HI	(Kaloko)
Rainbow Bridge National Monument	AZ	(Navajo Nation; Hopi, Kaibab Paiute, San Juan Southern Paiute, Ute Mountain Ute)
Redwood National Park	CA	(Tolowa, Yurok, Chilula)
Roger Williams National Memorial	RI	(Narragansett, Wampanoag)
Russell Cave National Monument	AL	(Transitional Paleo to Mississippian cultural)
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument	NM	(Pueblo)
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park	TX	(Coahuiltecan/South Texans)
San Juan National Historic Site	PR	(Taino)
Santa Fe National Historic Trail	NM	(Historic Plains and Pueblo cultures)
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	CA	(Chumash, Tongva)
Shiloh National Military Park	TN	(at Shiloh Indian Mounds)
Sitka National Historical Park	AK	(Tlingit)
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument	AZ	(Ancestral Puebloan, Navajo)
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve	FL	(Timucuan)
Tonto National Monument	AZ	(Salado)
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail	NM	(Cherokee and other Southeast groups)
Tumacacori National Historical Park	AZ	(Pima)
Tuzigoot National Monument	AZ	(Sinagua)
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River	NY	(Lenape)
Voyageurs National Park	MN	(Ojibwa)
Walnut Canyon National Monument	AZ	(Sinagua/ancestral Pueblo/Hopi)
Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area	CA	(Wintu at Whiskeytown)
Whitman Mission National Historic Site	WA	(Cayuse)
Women's Rights National Historical Park	NY	(Iroquois Confederacy, Seneca, Cayuga)
Wupatki National Monument	AZ	(Ancestral Pueblo, Navajo)
Yellowstone National Park	WY	(Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock, Sheepeaters, Crow, Blackfeet)
Yosemite National Park	CA	(Southern & Central Sierra Miwok, Mono Lake Paiute)

NPS units proposed but not confirmed as interpreting Native American culture(s) as a primary theme:

• Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, WI (Ojibwa)
• Arches National Park, UT (Paiute)
• Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, AK ( )
• Canyonlands National Park, UT (Ute)
• Cape Krusenstern National Monument, AK ( )
• Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY (Cheyenne, Kiowa, Sioux)
• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, NM ()
• Kobuk Valley National Park, AK ( )
• Poverty Point National Monument, LA ( )

Source: Steve Perrin at NP-ACAD, updated 10/28/97

Reference

Savage, Beth L. (Ed.); African American Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places; National Park Service, Preservation Press, 1994