National Parks
Indians and Glacier National Park (Photo Diary)
What is now Glacier National Park in Montana was an important resource and spiritual area for the Salish-speaking Pend d’Oreille and Flathead, for the Kootenai, […]
National Parks
Photo Diary: Shiloh Indian Mounds
Located inside the Shilo Battlefield National Military Park is the Indian Mounds National Park. This is a Mississipian-culture village, inhabited between roughly 1000 and 1400 […]
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley, located in California, is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in the United States. It is an area of sand dunes and wilderness. […]
Public Lands: Indian Languages Along the Trail (Photo Diary)
The Discovery Historic Loop Trail in Vancouver, Washington, runs from historic Fort Vancouver National Historic Site across the Vancouver Land Bridge designed by architect Johnpaul […]
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley, located in California, is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in the United States. It is an area of sand dunes and wilderness. […]
“Stands Like a Porcupine”
In Canada’s Northwest Territories, the mountain area in the South Nahanni River watershed known as Naats’ihch’oh (“Stands Like a Porcupine”) by the Dene-speaking people has […]
Mount Rushmore
While Europeans tended to build the places they considered to be sacred-churches, statues, memorials-for American Indian people sacred places were often not places constructed by […]
National Parks & American Indians: Grand Canyon
( – promoted by navajo) American Indians have lived in and have utilized the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River for thousands of years. The […]
National Parks & American Indians: Mesa Verde
( – promoted by navajo) Nearly a thousand years ago, Ancestral Puebloans (sometimes called Anasazi) began to construct pueblos in caves and under the rock […]
National Parks & American Indians: Yellowstone
( – promoted by oke) In 1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed the legislation making Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming the world’s first national […]