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"The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character." ~Martin Luther
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Alabama
Atmore - Poarch Creek Indian Heritage Center - Site of annual Thanksgiving gathering of Creek Tribe.
Birmingham - Lawson Corley Museum of Arrowheads, Indian Artifacts, and War Memorabilia - Collection of more than 100,000 arrowheads, tools, spears, bannerstones and gadgets from aboriginal American cultures such as the Mississippian mound-builders.
Bridgeport - Russell Cave National Monument - Native American archeological site. The cave was inhabited from 6500 B.C. to 1650.
Daviston - Horseshoe Bend National Military Park - Site of largest massacre of American Indians in US history.
Moundville - Moundville Archaeological Site - 172 acres consisting of 32 platform mounds around a rectangular plaza. Moundville is the second largest site of the classic Middle Mississippian era.
Tensaw - Fort Mims - Site of the start of the Creek Wars of 1813-1914.
Wetumpka - Fort Toulouse/Fort Jackson - 1100 year old Mississippian mounds. Also the site of the treaty signing marking the end of the Creek Wars.
Georgia
Georgia’s Native American peoples included Archaic, Mississippian, Paleoindian and Woodlands Indians. Tribes from Georgia included the Creek, Cherokee, Hitchiti, Oconee, Miccosukee, Guale, Yamasee, Timucua and Appalachee. Tribes driven into Georgia after the arrival of settlers also included the Shawnee and Yuchi.
Albany - Thronateeska Cultural Heritage Center -
Atlanta - Atlanta History Center - The Metropolitian Frontiers exhibit includes a history of Atlanta’s people, from the Cherokee Indians who were forced to move westward to present-day ethnic diversity.
Atlanta - Michael C. Carlos Museum - Permanent collection includes over 2.300 artifacts from Mesoamerican, Central American and Andean peoples.
Atlanta - http://www.fernbankmuseum.org/exhibitions/permanent/first_georgians.aspx- One of Fernbank's permanent exhibits, First Georgians, contains a collection of artifacts from 10,000 BC through 1700 AD.
Athens - University of Georgia Natural History Museum -
Augusta - Augusta Museum of History - More than 60,000 artifacts recount the history of Augusta and its environs from the Paleo-Indian period to the present.
Blakely - Kolomoki Mounds State Park Museum - Seven earthen mounds within the park were built between 250-950 A.D. by the Swift Creek and Weeden Island Indians. The mounds include Georgia's oldest great temple mound, two burial mounds and four ceremonial mounds. The park's museum is partially situated inside an excavated mound, providing an unusual setting for viewing artifacts and a film.
Cartersville - Etowah Indian Mounds State Park - State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark. Home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D., this 54-acre site contains six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch. This is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeastern United States.
Calhoun - New Echota State Park - Only capital city of the Cherokee before they were forced west on the Trail of Tears.
Chatsworth - Chief Vann House - Georgia's best preserved historic Cherokee Indian home. Exhibits include original furnishings, Indian artifacts and hand carvings.
Columbus - Columbus Museum of Arts and Science - One of the permanent collections, Chattahoochee Legacy contains one of the best Indian artifact collections in Georgia. Exhibits interpret many phases of the culture and lifestyles of Indians in central Georgia and Alabama.
Darien - Fort King George Historic Site - Used by Indians for over 10,000 years. The lower bluff on the Altamaha River was occupied by a succession of Indian groups, was later inhabited by the Spanish missionaries, and eventually became a British fortified outpost in 1721. A museum interprets the history of the area, including the early occupation of the site by the Guale Indians.
Eatonton - Rock Eagle Effigy - This large effigy, which measures 102 feet across the wings, is made of large quartz cobbles and likely dates to the Middle Woodland Period of the early centuries A.D. A second rock pile, which appears to be in the shape of a hawk, is located in eastern Putnam County.
Flovilla - Indian Springs State Park Museum - This museum has photographs of local historical hotels, Civilian Corps. and Hoard Mullis Amusement Park, pictures of local Creek Indians, treaties, a replica of traditional Indian apparel, pottery and items that reflect stages of Indian civilization. Seasonal from Memorial Day to Labor Day, Wednesday through Sunday. Across U.S. 23 from the park is the Indian Springs Hotel where the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs was signed, ceding all the Creek lands in Georgia.
LaGrange - Lamar Dodd Art Center - Located at LaGrange College and houses the Case Collection of American Indian Art.
Macon - Ocmulgee National Monument - Prehistoric Indian Mounds from the early Mississippian era.
Omaha - Florence Marina State Park - Rood Creek Indian Mounds - The park’s Kirbo Interpretive Center teaches visitors about Native Americans, nature and local history, and it displays snakes, turtles, fish and artifacts from the prehistoric Paleo-Indian period through the early 20th century. Eight mounds were focal points of an Indian community and served as a center for political and ceremonial activities during the Mississippian period.
Rome - Chieftains Museum and Major Ridge Home - National Historic Site on the Trail of Tears. The museum presents interpretive exhibits (permanent and temporary), educational programs, and special events that pertain to the Ridge family and Cherokee history and culture.
Rossville - John Ross Home - Two story log house of John Ross, chief of the Cherokees prior to the Trail of Tears.
Savannah - Savannah History Museum - Features rare dugout canoes from the 1800s.
Savannah - Kiah Museum - 505 W 36th St. - Dubbed as a 'Museum for the Masses'.
Waleska - Funk Heritage Center - Distinctive museum that traces both Indian and settler cultures in North Georgia.
Whigham - Tama Museum - Lower Creek Muskogee Tribe
North Carolina
Cherokee - Museum of the Cherokee Indian - Located on Tribal lands, a living museum which connects you with the history of the Eartern Band of Cherokees, through exhibits, collections and archives but also offers a hands on experience which teaches native crafts of finger weaving, basket making, pottery and dance.
Cullowhee - Mountain Heritage Center - Western Carolina University museum offers a cultural history of the Southern Appalachians including Cherokee Indian history and infulence. Check web site for schedule of exhibits.
Ellerbe - The Rankin Museum of American and Natural History - One of the largest privately owned collections on display in the Southeast.
Gastonia - Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium - Permanent collection includes the Henry Hall of the American Indian.
Greensboro - Guilford Native American Art Gallery - Fine art gallery concerned with promoting, exhibiting, and selling the very best traditional and contemporary American Indian or Native American art
Mount Gilead - Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site - A glimpse of pre-Columbian life in Piedmont North Carolina. The visitor center contains interpretive exhibits, as well as audiovisual programs that bring alive a rich cultural heritage from the buried past. Self-guided tours of the rebuilt structures and mound and other group activities are available.
Murphy - Cherokee County Historical Museum - More than 2,000 artifacts from the Cherokee people.
Old Fort - Mountain Gateway Museum - Exhibits, artifacts, photographs and video interpret life in Western North Carolina from the earliest inhabitants through the settlement period and into the 20th
Pembroke - Museum of the Native American Resource Center - UNC Pembroke operates this museum which contains exhibits of authentic Indian artifacts, arts and crafts. These items come from Indian people all over North America, from Abenaki to Zuni. Many other items come from North Carolina Native Americans, with special emphasis on Robeson County Indian people. Particular focus is placed on the largest North Carolina tribe, the Lumbee.
Winston-Salem - Museum of Anthropology - On permanent display is the exhibit “Treasures from a Moravian Attic: Native American Objects from the Wachovia Historical Society Collection” which features over 20,000 Native American archaeological and ethnographic objects from North Carolina and across North America.
Tennessee
Knoxville - Frank H. McClung Museum - Museum exhibit archives include history and art of the Cherokee, Pueblo and Mayan peoples. Extensive document archive of Southeast Native American Documents from 1730-1842. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
Oak Ridge - Children's Museum of Oak Ridge - Contains a Native American exhibit on permanent display.
Vonore - Sequoia Birthplace Museum - Run by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this museum promotes the understanding and appreciation of the history of the Cherokee people.
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