1. Ancient Fermilab: The Mier Collection of Native American Artifacts

2. Native American Cultural Chronology Paleoindian – 12,000 – 10,000 years ago Archaic – 10,000 – 3,000 years ago Woodland – 3,000 – 1,100 years ago Mississippian – 1,100 – 700 years ago Late Prehistoric – 700 – 329 years ago European Contact – 329 years ago

3. Archaeological sites at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

4. Mier Collection Artifacts Paleoindian 5/2% Early Archaic86/26% Middle Archaic83/26% Late Archaic86/26% Late Archaic/Early Woodland17/5% Late Woodland 3/1% Mississippian/Late Prehistoric45/14%

5. Cultural Context of the Meir Fermilab Collection An overview of cultural periods illustrated with artifacts from Native American sites in Illinois.

6. Paleoindian

7. Paleoindian spear points

8. A Paleoindian family

9. Mastodon hunters

10. Archaeological sites near Nelson Lake

11. Archaic

12. Early Archaic spear points

13. Archaic Grooved Axes

14. Archaic dart points

15. Hunting with an atlatl

16. Gathering seeds and collecting fish

17. Woodland

18. Harvesting Squash

19. Middle Woodland Pot

20. Middle Woodland Platform Pipe

21. Dongola chert disks

22. Mica

23. Woodland Copper Adze

24. Middle Woodland Platform Pipe

25. Woodland village

26. Mississippian

27. Mississippian arrow points

28. Mississippian hoe

29. Cultivating corn outside a Mississippian village

30. Mississippian Birger Figurine

31. Mississippian marine shell maskette

32. Mississippian wooden mask

33. Mississippian town

34. Late Prehistoric

35. Late Prehistoric Oneota pot

36. Late Prehistoric Oneota fish lures

37. Late Prehistoric conflict

38. European Contact

39. French crucifix

40. European glass beads

41. Historic Village

42. In 1845, 12,000 years after the arrival of their ancestors, the last Native American tribe in Illinois was forcibly removed.

43. Today, although all of the tribes once- resident in Illinois live elsewhere, thousands of Native Americans call Illinois home.