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For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead. The sheer magnitude of the ancient Hopewell culture’s reach was lifted up to a new set of visitors from around the world Saturday. Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Glenna Wallace says the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks' UNESCO World Heritage designation means the world now knows ancient Native Americans were “uncommon geniuses.” The eight earthworks sites are described as “part cathedral, part cemet...

For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead. The sheer magnitude of the ancient Hopewell culture’s reach was lifted up to a new set of visitors from around the world Saturday. Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Chief Glenna Wallace says the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks' UNESCO World Heritage designation means the world now knows ancient Native Americans were “uncommon geniuses.” The eight earthworks sites are described as “part cathedral, part cemet...

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Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, where Indigenous North Americans celebrated their culture and honored their dead, has become a UNESCO World Heritage designation.

For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead.