The Great Serpent Mound

is located in the heart of the former Shawnee Nation homelands. Chief Tecumseh, a brilliant strategist and diplomat, led a pan-Indigenous resistance movement that ultimately could not withstand the highly armed military assault by US troops in the genocidal campaign to “remove” the Shawnee people to three different reservations in Oklahoma and break up the powerful nation.

The state of Ohio is now working in collaboration with the Shawnee Nations of Oklahoma to reclaim and manage the site.

Talon Silverhorn, breaking ground/former Tecumseh Motel. Talon is a Shawnee educator and program leader for the conversion of Ohio territory to a park and Shawnee interpretive center. 

The Tecumseh Motel by Shawnee Poet Laura Da’ author of Tributaries and Instruments of the True Measure   
masterful poetry history texts

The Tecumseh Motel the new story

The Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, now a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site, is operated by the Federal Park System, in collaboration with the three federally recognized Shawnee Tribes —Eastern Shawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Absentee Shawnee Tribe —to preserve the findings, continue archeological research and work with the living descendants of the Indigenous cultures who created some of the most sophisticated landscape art on earth.

Great Circle Alliance is an interdisciplinary crossroads for scholars, archeologists, artists, and local communities to offer programs to amplify the contemporary human voice in the ancient monumental sites of Ohio.

Arc of Appalachia is a land preservation non-profit devoted to acquiring and stewarding wildlands in the Ohio region. Read this amazing story about their recent purchase to protect and restore Tremper Mound earthwork.

Friends of Serpent Mound is an Adams County based advocacy group that investigates and engages with the history and meaning of these sites from multiple perspective and disciplines.

An Archeology of the Sacred Archeo-astronomer, William Romain’s deep probe, scientifically and poetically, into the sacred Indigenous relationship to the landscape and the vision of the people who created the mounds along the south flowing rivers in southern Ohio, over two thousand years ago.