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I know this thread is pretty old, but if you are wondering about the reservations in the Dakotas, I have one piece of advice for you: stay away. They are honestly terrible, depressing places on absolute s*** land. They are incredibly poor and sad. If you want to learn about the Lakota/Sioux culture, visit museums like the Journey Museum in Rapid City. Avoid the reservation itself.
The Navajo nation around the Four Corners or states like NM or AZ. If you happen to come to this part of the country, I'd recommend stopping by the cliff-dwelling settlement in SW Colorado. One of the coolest things to see.
Seattle and Vancouver for sure! Most natives here live on their tribal land and you will see them sometimes but more so their culture is ingrained in our own and it is very apparent. There are also places you can go such as Tillicum Village on Blake Island in the Puget Sound to experience the old Salish tribe.
I would definitely recommend Oklahoma! Here is a map of the tribes of Oklahoma, all which used to be reservations but are now Tribal Statistical Areas (exception being the Osage Nation, which is still and Oklahoma's only reservation). Many, if not all of the tribes have their own cultural centers and various cultural events. I'm mostly Choctaw (also Navajo and Cherokee) and grew up in the Choctaw Nation.
Yet another great place for a visit for learning and understanding Native Americans is the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation located in the Great Smoky Mts area of western North Carolina. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to visit there and they provided a wonderful overview of their history and culture of the Cherokee Nation and it’s people.
Agreed. I visited Cherokee on my visit to Asheville this past Summer and really enjoyed it.
Exactly and they like to call themselves Haudenosaunee which means "People of the Longhouse".
Syracuse, Niagara Falls and Buffalo have their share of urban Native Americans too. Kids go to schools in school districts like Salmon River, Massena, LaFayette, Onondaga Central, Silver Creek, Salamanca, Akron and Niagara-Wheatfield, among some others.
I know this thread is pretty old, but if you are wondering about the reservations in the Dakotas, I have one piece of advice for you: stay away. They are honestly terrible, depressing places on absolute s*** land. They are incredibly poor and sad. If you want to learn about the Lakota/Sioux culture, visit museums like the Journey Museum in Rapid City. Avoid the reservation itself.
This. The Dakota and Lakota people got absolutely screwed by Uncle Sam. The reservations in South Dakota (both eastern and western part) make the Mississippi Delta look like the Ritz.
If you want relatively un-Americanized Native culture, try Alaska. There are still parts of the state where Inuit go on whale hunts and such. I'm not sure if you're allowed to visit their villages or not (never tried), but it is a place where the natives have much more in common culturally with their ancestors than many in the Lower 48 do. Aside from that, the Navajo in the Southwest would probably be your next best bet.
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