Long before 1872, Yellowstone was Indigenous homeland. Explore 11,000 years of Native history, from Obsidian Cliff trade to the tribes erased by the park’s creation.
Category: United States
Ohio – Map, Flag & County
Explore Ohio’s Native American heritage: Adena and Hopewell earthworks, Shawnee, Miami and Wyandot nations, Tecumseh’s resistance, and forced removal.
When California (Briefly) Became Its Own Nation
The Bear Flag Revolt of 1846 created a 25-day California Republic—setting the stage for conquest, the Wintu massacre, and Native Californian dispossession.
Indiana
Explore Indiana’s Native history: Hopewell mounds, Miami Chief Little Turtle, Tecumseh’s resistance, and the 1838 Potawatomi Trail of Death — the land of the Indians.
The Many Lives of Las Vegas: Photos
Before the casinos: how the Tudinu, ancestors of the Las Vegas Paiute, shaped the desert valley long before Sin City’s 1905 founding and reinventions.
The Rise and Fall of Action Park—New Jersey’s Most Dangerous Water Park
Explore the rise and fall of Action Park, New Jersey’s most dangerous water park, built on ancestral Munsee Lenape homeland in Vernon, NJ. Facts, deaths, and legacy.
How Kentucky Became the World’s Bourbon Capital
How Kentucky became bourbon’s world capital—a story rooted in Indigenous maize, Shawnee and Cherokee lands, limestone water, and frontier settlement.
Why Arizona and Hawaii Don’t Observe Daylight Saving Time
Why Arizona and Hawaii never change their clocks: the history of DST exemptions since 1967 and the Navajo Nation’s unique time zone sovereignty.
Montana
Explore Indigenous Montana history: Blackfeet, Crow, Salish & Cheyenne nations, Sitting Bull’s victory at the Little Bighorn, treaties, and tribal legacy today.
5 Ways Missions Shaped the American West
How 1830s Protestant missions to the Cayuse, Nez Perce and other Native nations shaped U.S. expansion, the Oregon Trail, and the Cayuse War of 1847.
West Virginia – Capital, Map & Cities
Explore 12,000 years of West Virginia Native American history: Adena & Hopewell mounds, the Iroquois Confederacy, Shawnee & Lenape nations, and statehood.
Wyoming – Population, Capital & Cities
Explore Wyoming’s Native American heritage: 12,000 years of Indigenous history, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, the Fetterman Fight, and the Wind River Reservation.