Native Americans formed trees to serve as trail markers. There are a number of them near Chicago.
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This Trail Marker Tree was one of eleven similarly shaped trail marker trees, all oaks, that were in a ...
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Walk Past: 8 Amazing Native American Trail Marker Trees | WebEcoist
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Apr 17, 2012 – Trail Marker Trees are living cultural signposts, shaped and molded by ancient Native Americans to be navigational aids in a time before GPS, ...
Mysteries of the Trail-Marker Trees - Illinois Steward - University of ...
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Opinions vary as to who or what was responsible for forming trail-marker trees-those old trees with very distinctive shapes that seem to point out destinations.
Trail Tree Project - Mountain Stewards
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Even a century and a half after the Cherokees were shipped west along the Trail of Tears, the shape of the trees themselves maintain the sharp angles that ...
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Native American Trail Marker Trees. Painter and Sculptor Dennis Downes Legends of the Great Lakes and Beyond American Indian Trail Marker Trees ...
Trail Marker Trees | Chicago Tonight | WTTW
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Nov 1, 2011 – Central Michigan Trail Tree Protected White Oak. Click image to view photo gallery. Before there were road signs, there were trail marker trees.
Trees Bent By American Indians Being Identified and Preserved ...
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Apr 5, 2012 – These images from the Great Lakes Trail Marker Tree Society show a ...The trees are known as Indian marker trees or trail trees and were bent ...
