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Geologist Ferdinand Hayden directed the first scientific exploration of Yellowstone in 1871, leading directly to the founding of the world’s first national park the following year.
Yellowstone surveyor Hayden advocated that Indigenous people be made into farmers, and if they did not comply with dictates, be exterminated.
Geologist Ferdinand Hayden directed the first scientific exploration of Yellowstone in 1871, leading directly to the founding of the world’s first national park in the following year. Hayden’s noteworthy achievements in science and conservation, however, are clouded by his views of Indigenous people.
The area now known as Yellowstone National Park — or the “ land of the burning ground” — has been known to Indigenous people for at least 11,000 years. In fact, in 1805 the governor of the Louisiana Territory described a map drawn on a bison hide by an Indigenous American showing a “volcano”...
One of the most popular parks in America is located in the western part of the US in Wyoming. This is our best guide to Yellowstone National Park.