Searching for evidence of past humans in Yellowstone
Yellowstone is working to piece together some of its lost history. Long before it was a park, native people hunted and camped on the land for at least 11,000 years. When it became a national park, the U.S. government pushed the natives out. In the last 30 years, the National…
The African American pioneers who went west
Before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the great American frontier was the Northwest Territory. Today it includes Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 said that citizens could buy land there, and any man who owned at least 50 acres of land could…
Found: Lakota oral history
Libby Holden and her family were sorting through items that belonged to her grandmother when they found a Lakota oral history document. According to a note on the front page, Holden's great-grandmother typed this document in 1910 to record oral history told by Chief White Horse. The oral history uses…
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