also realized that her fellow interpretive rangers had little grasp of the Native American presence in the area. (Today, more than 20 Tribes are associated with the park.) When a colleague asked her ...

They include Shelton Johnson, an African American who grew up in Detroit, where the national parks seemed distant, unreachable places until he later became a park ranger; Gerard Baker, a Native ...

“The notion that we are not going to talk about the Native American impact and importance has no merit,” he said. Instead, the park, which in 1670 was the site of the first English settlement ...