Medicine Wheel

🔥 On April 30, Sweden 🇸🇪 welcomes spring with a cherished celebration known as Valborg in Swedish. Bonfires are lit across the country and with choral singing, the brighter days ahead are welcomed.

Originally a pagan tradition to scare off witches and evil spirits, Valborg (Walpurgis Night) has evolved into a beloved cultural event with local community gatherings that combines folklore and student traditions.

Glad Valborg - Happy Walpurgis Night! 🎊


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Set beneath towering limestone cliffs near Hyattville, the Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site is one of Wyoming’s most significant places of continuous human history. More than 10,000 years of Indigenous presence are recorded here through rock art panels, ancient campsites, and layered deposits that reveal hunting traditions, storytelling, artistry, and everyday life. Today, the site is stewarded by Wyoming State Parks, which protects its cultural resources while welcoming visitors to explore its trails, rock art, and interpretive areas.

Thank you for joining us throughout this five-part series celebrating Wyoming’s Indigenous cultural sites. Recognizing and preserving these places honors the deep histories, living traditions, and enduring relationships between Native peoples and this land: an essential part of protecting Wyoming’s past, present, and future.

Our old ones said: The way you walk in this world is a prayer. Every step carries the ones who walked before you. mîkwêc for walking with us in a good way.

This week, we are celebrating the historic sites across Wyoming that tell the story of the Indigenous Peoples who call the region home.

High atop the Bighorn Mountains sits the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, one of the most significant Indigenous sacred sites in North America. Estimated to be over 10,000 years old, it has 28 spokes and surrounding cairns that reflect deep astronomical knowledge and ceremonial traditions still honored by many Tribal Nations today. The site is cared for collaboratively by the U.S. Forest Service and representatives from regional Tribes, who work together to ensure its protection, cultural integrity, and respectful visitor access. In summer months, visitors can walk the quiet, mile-long trail to the wheel and experience the place on foot, guided by posted information and longstanding etiquette. Preserving the Medicine Wheel, and all Indigenous heritage sites, is vital to protecting the cultural traditions, stories, and sacred landscapes that continue to shape Wyoming.