Trace the footsteps of those who first called this land home, from ancient Native American traditions to the early European explorers and settlers.
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Ten Thousand Years of Sacred Ground
This series, Paths of the Ancestors, traces the Indigenous and early human history of Glacier National Park, from the first people who arrived here over ten thousand…
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Chief Mountain and the Niitsitapi People
Chief Mountain, that stark block of limestone standing apart from the main range, holds such importance to the Blackfeet that tribal members still fast and pray on its…
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Three Nations of the Western Valleys
The Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai peoples maintained an intricate seasonal calendar tied to the western slopes of what is now Glacier National Park — a calendar…
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Treaties That Redrew the Map Forever
In 1806, Meriwether Lewis and a small party passed just south of what is now Glacier National Park, making some of the first recorded European observations of this…
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Grinnell's Crusade and the Iron Horse
George Bird Grinnell first visited this region in 1885 on a hunting trip and left a changed man.
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Two Nations One Shared Wilderness
In 1932, something happened here that had never been done before anywhere on Earth.
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Tribal Voices Reclaiming Their Own Narrative
Since 2003, the Native America Speaks program has brought tribal members into Glacier's amphitheaters and gathering spaces to share their own stories on their own terms.
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