Meanwhile, the only monument to Indigenous frontier war resistance in Canberra stands inside the National Gallery of Australia in the form of 200 hollow log coffins – beautiful art to some, but for many Indigenous Australians it's a revered piece of spiritually significant commemorative architecture.
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Indigenous Prisoner of War Facility (Photo: G. Nienaber).
So perhaps now is an appropriate time for official monuments to the Indigenous diggers and for the warriors of the frontier wars – such as Pemulwuy, Jandamarra, Wyndradine, Durelle and Kanabygal.
Shane Mortimer, an elder of the Ngambri – custodians of the limestone plains on which the Australian Capital Territory has been imposed – says there should be a memorial to Indigenous diggers on Anzac Parade, already lined with various military monuments, and another to the frontier war fighters at the Aboriginal embassy across the lake.
People are playing Pokémon Go at the monument for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Winnipeg the city that's been called ground zero for the national crisis.
Jeju horse (JH; a natural monument No. 347) is an indigenous Korean horse, is physically a small and rugged pony [ 36].
There's the Badlands, the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Jewel Cave National Monument (with the second longest cave in the world), Wind Cave National Park, Crazy Horse Memorial, Spearfish Canyon, Bear Butte State Park where indigenous Northern Plains tribes go for vision quests and, of course, the magnificent Custer State Park that served as the summer White House for Calvin Coolidge.
The idea was promoted by the German explorer Karl Mauch, who visited in 1871 and refused to believe that indigenous Africans could have built such an extensive network of monuments.
The creation of the monument is controversial with the fishing industry and indigenous groups who complain about new restrictions on fishing in the area.
"If [Wupatki] is ever reduced as a national monument, it needs to be returned to the indigenous people that were forced out at gunpoint.
