Earthworks
Ohio State students participating in the Earthworks Pilgrimage as part of the Newark Earthwork's Center's Walk with the Ancients resume their walk after a visit to Great Seal State Park north of Chillicothe, Ohio, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. In the background is the peak of Sugarloaf Mountain. Image courtesy by Timothy E. Black.

Students

The Newark Earthworks Center is deeply committed to our fellow Buckeyes. We want to connect our students with all resources and research opportunities possible.

Highlighted programs and classes

Sustainable Agriculture Major

As much of agriculture trends toward larger farms where an emphasis is placed on increased efficiency and cost control, there is a segment of farmers who wish to remain on the land and yet make different choices other than industrialization.
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American Indian Studies Minor

Indigenous people have visited present-day Ohio for thousands of years, leaving behind large-scale geometric, boundary, and effigy earthworks in central and southern Ohio. These structures highlight the region's historical significance as a center of economic, spiritual, artistic, and intellectual activity.
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Individual classes

From archaeology to literature, we have a great selection of classes that may be of interest. These classes exemplify or contain potential for research within the mission of the Newark Earthworks Center. This includes classes taught by our Faculty Oversight Committee members and our Director.
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Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris speaking at the World Heritage Celebration at the Great Circle earthworks, Health, Ohio. Image courtesy of Timothy E. Black.

“Without collective traditional ways, the earthworks would not exist. The builders’ knowledge enfolded in the everyday and the story of the everyday was passed down generation to generation; connecting who they were to who we are becoming.”

Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris
Former Director of American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University

Scholarships

Dr. John Low speaking at the World Heritage Celebration at the Great Circle earthworks, Heath, Ohio. Image courtesy of Timothy E. Black.
Dr. John Low speaking at the World Heritage Celebration at the Great Circle earthworks, Heath, Ohio. (Image courtesy of Timothy E. Black.)

“Forty-two current sovereign American Indian Nations have a historic connection to Ohio. They were scattered and fled north to Canada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and/or Mexico during the removal period that followed, or they were ‘relocated’ onto reservations west of the Mississippi, primarily in what is now Oklahoma. But the citizens of these tribal nations remain stakeholders in the management and care of these ‘monuments of the Ohio River Valley.’”

Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)
Director of the Newark Earthworks Center

Jobs

Research Assistance

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Research

Our projects and research are centered around the American Indian cultures that produced the monumental Midwestern earthen architecture.
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People

Connect with faculty and researchers affiliated with the Newark Earthworks Center!

Collected outside research

Including blogs, centers, committees, institutes, societies, historical sources, Midwest American Indian and earthworks videos, informative links, museums and historic sites, news sites, and online exhibits.
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Cropped image of a historical map of the Midwest centered on land which become Ohio.