Atlas Obscura
The Turtle (Native American Center for the Living Arts) in Niagara Falls, New York
With its shell-like geodesic dome roof and projections meant to evoke a head (complete with porthole windows for “eyes”) and four flippers, Dennis Sun Rhodes (Arapaho) and Duffy Wilson’s (Tuscarora) design for the Native American Center for the Living Arts evokes the turtle on whose back the Earth formed in the Haudenosaunee creation story. That story is part of a vibrant culture the building’s…