Indigenous Peoples’ Day

To celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Wilderness Inquiry would like to recognize that we are guests in the outdoor spaces we enjoy and acknowledge the original descendants of the places we frequent and love.

MINNESOTA

Boundary Waters Canoe Area – Native Ojibwe Lands

Fort Snelling – Isáŋthaŋka Akíchita Thípi, Native Dakota Lands

Minneapolis – Bdeóta Othúŋwe, Native Dakota Lands

St. Paul – Imnížaska Othúŋwe, Native Dakota Lands

Mississippi River (Twin Cities) – Wakpá Tháŋka, Native Dakota Lands

• Length of Mississippi: Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Fox, Ho-Chunk, Kickapoo, Moingwena, Ojibwe, Potawatomie, Quapaw, Sioux,  and Tamaroa Native Lands

St. Croix River – Hoǧáŋ Waŋká kiŋ, Native Dakota Lands

Superior Hiking Trail – Native Ojibwe Lands

Voyageurs National Park – Native Ojibwe Lands

Itasca State Park – Native Ojibwe Lands

William O’Brien State Park – Native Dakota and Ojibwe Lands

 

GREATER UNITED STATES

Apostle Islands – Native Ojibwe Lands

Beartooth Mountains – Native Crow Lands

Everglades 10,000 Islands – Ais, Calusa, Creek, Jeaga, Mayaimi, Seminole, and Tequesta Native Lands

Glacier National Park – Blackfeet, Kootnei, and Salish Native Lands

Hawai’i’s Big Island – Native Hawaiian Lands

Olympic National Park – Hoh, Jamestown S’Klallam, Lower Elwha Klallam, Makah, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Quileute, Quinault, and Skokomish Native Lands.

Utah’s Capitol Reef And Grand Staircase – Acoma, Anasazi, Fremont, Goshute, Hopi, Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute, and Zuni Native Lands

Yellowstone National Park – Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Cheyenne River Sioux, Coeur d’Alene, Comanche, Colville Reservation, Crow, Crow Creek Sioux, Eastern Shoshone, Flandreau Santee Sioux, Gros Ventre and Assiniboine, Kiowa, Lower Brule Sioux, Nez Perce, Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux, Rosebud Sioux, Salish and Kootenai, Shoshone–Bannock, Sisseton Wahpeton, Spirit Lake, Standing Rock Sioux, Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa, Umatilla Reservation, and Yankton Sioux Native Lands

Grand Canyon – Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Navajo, Paiute, Pueblo of Zuni, and Yavapai-Apache Native Lands