Are Ohio Native Sites Poised for World Heritage Designation?
Magnificent 2,000-year-old Indigenous earthworks in Ohio may be headed for equally grand accolades. In 2023, UNESCO is expected to designate them World Heritage sites. As such, the sites would join Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal, Chartres Cathedral and other places UNESCO has deemed of great historical and cultural importance to humanity. A version of my article below, about tribal involvement in the process, first appeared in 2019 on Rural America In These Times . For more on topics like this, please see my book, American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle.... Ohio’s many monumental earthworks were laid out with a “god’s eye view” in mind, says a research team. C hief Billy Friend of the Wyandotte Nation addressed a crowd in Dublin, Ohio. The event was a celebration of the city’s new Ferris-Wright Park , which features several of the state’s numerous ancient geometric earthworks and mounds, or artificial hills. Ancestors of today’s Native people built the earthen sites betw