Indian Head can refer to:
- Indian Head, Saskatchewan, town in Canada
- Indian Head, Maryland, town in the United States
- Indian Head (Fraser Island), headland in Australia
- Indian Head cent, U.S. one cent coin (1859-1909)
- Indian Head nickel, U.S. five cent coin (1913-1938)
- Indian Head test card, television test pattern in the U.S.
- Indian Head rock formation in Lincoln, New Hampshire, which resembles the head of an American Indian and is near the site of the Old Man of the Mountain
- "Badlands Guardian" in Alberta, Canada, a landscape which, when viewed from the air, resembles a human head wearing a full native American headdress
The term "Indian Head" can also colloquially refer to the logos of any number of professional and collegiate sports teams that feature a stylized image of a Native American. Prominent examples include:
- Washington Redskins
- The Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo
- Chicago Blackhawks
- Florida State Seminoles
- North Dakota Fighting Sioux
- The Illinois Fighting Illini's former use of Chief Illiniwek
The use of such logos, however, is not without controversy.
Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or head:
“I am not sure but all that would tempt me to teach the Indian my religion would be his promise to teach me his.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Dead drunk
is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or a foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)