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Yellowstone Is Indian Country - Native American culture and wildlife
offered by supplier M15288 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 10
day(s)
Group Size: 5
- 10
people
Destination(s):
Montana
Wyoming
Oregon
Specialty Categories:
Native Americans
Wildlife Viewing
Season: September - October
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 3497 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 3997 US Dollar (USD)
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The Place of the Yellow Rock Water. Indians called it home over 10,000 years before the Pilgrims anchored at Cape Cod and sought to find their own. Since the days of Bridger and Moran, through Yellowstone becoming the first and now oldest national park in the world, the absence of a Native presence in Yellowstone has been explained by the myth that Indians feared this vast, pine-robed plateau that is punctuated by thermal wonders from lakeshore to river course. Supposedly the geysers engendered such apprehension among tribal people that they would do all they could to avoid this bountiful landscape. The Cheyenne, Kiowa, Shoshone, Bannock, Blackfeet, Nez Perce, and the most recent arrivals, the Crow, know a different story. Within these archives from ancestral memory is found a common theme – the sacred nature of the land named for the Yellow Rock Water and the connection to place, an ancient compact between the two-legged and four and the earth that sustains, but there, as yet, is still unmade. From the earliest experience it was gleaned that the earth in the Place of Yellow Rock Water was uneasy with itself, and, that there, creation was neither finished nor content. To be close to creation is to be upon the sacred. There was not fear but respect and intuition, the 600-square mile Yellowstone caldera is far from resting easy.
Day 1 Arrive West Yellowstone.
Day 2 The Backbone of the Park and the Time of Creation, A Cheyenne Explanation.
Place Where the Sacred Paint Was Collected.
Day 3 Where the Kiowa Passed the Test of Faith: How Yellowstone Became a Homeland to the Kiowa
The Buffalo and the Kiowa, A Relationship Born.
Day 4 – Ancient Hunters in Unison, The Ways of Wolf and Man.
Day 5 – Trail of the Great Bear.
Day 6 – On the Bannock-Shoshone Trail: Homes, Subsistence and Pathways.
Day 7 – Following the Nez Perce in 1877.
Day 8 –Perilous Journey Through Incredible Beauty: Chief Joseph Pass to Clark’s Fork Canyon.
Tipi Rings, Reminders in Stone of a People’s Pilgrimage.
Day 9 – Many Lifeways: The Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center – An in-depth walk-through, context, and summation.
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Flying into West Yellowstone and out of Billings or Cody. This tour includes guiding, transportation and great accommodations. We don't include food - you choose how much to spend on meals, not us.
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