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:
“Having resumed our seats in the canoe, I felt the Indian wiping my back, which he had accidently spat upon. He said it was a sign that I was going to be married.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)