Indian Head Explained

Indian Head can refer to:

Coins

• Indian Head cent, U.S. one cent coin (1859–1909)
• Indian Head eagle, U.S. $10 gold piece issued between 1907 and 1933
• Indian Head gold pieces, U.S. coins issued between 1908 and 1929
• Indian Head nickel, U.S. five cent coin (1913–1938)

Communities

Canada

• Indian Head, Saskatchewan, a town in Canada
  • Indian Head-Milestone, the local provincial electoral district
  • Rural Municipality of Indian Head No. 156, Saskatchewan, the surrounding rural municipality

United States

Listed alphabetically by state

• Indian Head Park, Illinois, a village in Cook County
• Indian Head, Maryland, a town in Charles County
• Indian Head, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Fayette County

Geographical features

United States

• Indian Head Mountain (New York), one of the Catskill Mountains in Greene County, New York
• Indian Head Peak, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the U.S. state of Washington
• Indian Head Pond (Massachusetts), in Hanson, Massachusetts
• Indian Head River, in Massachusetts
• Indian Head Rock, a multi-ton boulder near Portsmouth, Ohio
• Mount Pemigewasset, also known as Indian Head, in New Hampshire

Elsewhere

• Badlands Guardian, a landscape in Alberta, Canada—when viewed from the air, it resembles a human head wearing a full Native American headdress
• Indian Head (Fraser Island), a headland in Australia

Sports usage

"Indian Head" can also colloquially (and controversially) refer to the logos of a number of sports teams that feature(d) a stylized image of a Native American. Prominent examples include:

Teams

• Chicago Blackhawks, an American professional ice hockey team
• Florida State Seminoles, the sports teams of Florida State University
• North Dakota Fighting Sioux, the sports teams of University of North Dakota, now known as the North Dakota Fighting Hawks
• Washington Redskins, an American professional gridiron football team, now known as the Washington Commanders

Mascots

• Chief Illiniwek, former mascot of the Illinois Fighting Illini, the sports teams of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
• Chief Wahoo, former logo of the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team, now known as the Cleveland Guardians

Other uses

• Indian Head, Inc., onetime owner of Wayne Corporation, an American manufacturer of buses and other vehicles
• Indian Head Ginger, Costus spicatus, also known as Spiked Spirlaflag Ginger
• Indian Head Highway, Route 210 in the U.S. state of Maryland
• Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Charles County, Maryland
• Indian-head test pattern, an American television test pattern
• 2nd Infantry Division "Indianhead", a division of the United States Army

See also

• • Indianhead (disambiguation)