Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark | |
 The Medicine Wheel in Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA | |
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| Nearest city | Lovell |
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| Coordinates | 44°49′34″N 107°55′18″W / 44.82611°N 107.92167°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 69000184 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 16, 1969[1] |
| Designated NHL | August 29, 1970[2] |
The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark (Crow: Annáshisee, lit. 'Large campsite';[3] formerly known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel) is a medicine wheel located in the Bighorn National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The Medicine Wheel at Medicine Mountain is a large stone structure made of local white limestone laid upon a bedrock of limestone. It is both a place of sacred ceremony and scientific inquiry. In Native Science these uses are not distinguished as separate as they are in Western science.[4]
The cultural history of the Bighorn Mountains, home to the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, dates back over ten thousand years.[5][6][7]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Medicine Wheel". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ^ "Apsáalooke Language Alphabet and Pronunciation Guide | Library @ Little Big Horn College". lib.lbhc.edu.
- ^ Gregory Cajete, Native Science : Natural Laws of Interdependence. 1st ed. Santa Fe, N.M.: Clear Light Publishers, 2000
- ^ Frison, George C. 1978, 1991. Prehistoric Hunters of the Great Plains. 2nd edition ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- ^ George C. Frison and Danny N. Walker, Medicine Lodge Creek: Holocene Archaeology of the Eastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming: Volume 12007
- ^ Matthews, W. Mc. 2013. Edelman Mining District, Cass III 110 Cultural Survey of the Cloud Peak Wilderness, 2012. Big Horn County, Wyoming: US Forest Service.