Did the indigenous natives in north America leave any monuments except totem poles?

Question

Moey something like Mexico pyramids or tablets with writings or drawings inscripted on it.

Answer 1

Well, quite a lot. And don't forget they haven't died out. They are still around, creating totem poles, sculptures, gravestones, and all sorts of monuments. On the other hand, they tend to work with natural materials which would disintegrate and become part of the earth again after it was no longer used.

There are the mounds, in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois. Were these attempts to build pyramids with local materials? Were the Indians from "far away" from Mesoamerica like the Aztecs and Mayans? Keep reading about archaeology for the answer to that question--for the record, I'm just not sure!

One bit I read years ago that was fascinating to me: the Native Americans liked to make arrowheads out of a volcanic, glassy material called obsidian because it makes a sharper edge than steel. Not that they had steel, but they appreciated the sharp edge. Anyway, there was a burial mound in Ohio, about a thousand years old, that had 700 pounds of obsidian. Obsidian has a chemical signature, specific to the volcano, and this obsidian in Ohio was traced back to volcanoes in Idaho and Washington state!

I had the opportunity to visit Mesa Verde National Park a couple of months ago. They had discovered thousands of Ancestral Puebloan ruins there already, but brush fires and forest fires over the last dozen years have uncovered dozens more.

Answer 2

They're are mounds all over the Central United States and Petroglyph site across the United States, especially the South west. These mounds, some date to over (they think) 14000 years ago. They've been protected and cannot be touched as the Native Americans believe they'd be dessicated.

Answer 3

There are Toltec Mounds in Illinois and mounds in Arkansas close to LIttle Rock and those out west left those houses carved into the sides of mountains, but maybe none of these qualify as monuments. Don't know exactly what you are looking for.