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  News Release Yellowstone National Park engages with Tribes to improve partnerships North Entrance teepee installation event: Story of Crow-style teepee NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date: August 4, 2021 Contact: Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - As the Yellowstone 150th anniversary approaches in 2022, the park is working to engage with Tribes around potential actions to expand tribal presence and representation of their important cultural heritage in the park during the anniversary and beyond. Native Americans have been living in and connected to the landscape now known as Yellowstone for at least 11,000 years. Today, there are 27 associated Tribes who have historic and modern connections to the lands and resources now found within the park. “Our goal is to substantially engage every Tribe connected to Yellowstone,” said Superintendent Cam Sholly. “It’s very important that the 150th anniversary is not just about Yellow

  “Land of the burning ground”: Yellowstone’s Native American history and traditions Release Date: July 26, 2021 We sometimes think of Yellowstone as an untouched landscape, but humans have been present in the area for over ten thousand years!  The history and traditions of Native Americans in Yellowstone are as rich as the landscape itself. Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cole Messa, Ph.D. student and Professor Ken Sims, both in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. To the Crow, it was the “land of the burning ground” or “land of vapors”; to the Blackfeet it was known as “many smoke”; to the Flatheads it was “smoke from the ground”; to the Kiowa it was called “the place of hot water.” Almost 150 years after its establishment by President Ulysses S. Grant, Yell

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  News Release Park hosts annual American Indian guest artist program at Colter Bay Artist Lyle Miller demonstrates work at the Colter Bay Visitor Center in Grand Teton NPS Photo/BK Appleby Contact: Denise Germann, 307.739.3393 Contact: C.J. Adams, 307.739.3431 MOOSE, WY—Grand Teton National Park will host American Indian artists at the Colter Bay Visitor Center this summer to share their traditional and contemporary art with park visitors. This annual summer program, which has been in existence since the mid-1970s, will begin on Tuesday, May 25. Participating artists will demonstrate and share the cultural traditions of their tribes through art forms such as painting, weaving, pottery, beadwork, musical instruments, and more. Visitors are invited to learn about American Indian cultures and view demonstrations daily. The program is scheduled through September 27 and available during open hours of the Colter Bay Visitor Center, 8 a.m. to    5 p.m. dai

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