Donate to the Original Peoples of Yellowstone!
Yellowstone, a National Park in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, is renowned for its stunning natural splendor, including megafauna like buffalo and elk, stunning lakes and rivers, and the Old Faithful geyser. But for centuries before its discovery and population by outsiders, this paradise was home exclusively to several Indigenous Peoples, many of whom still live in the area.
Please use the donation form to the right to help fund the sacred defense of Indigenous communities associated with Yellowstone — and click Read More below to learn more about its original inhabitants. When you contribute $100 or more, we'll include a trial membership to the Lakota People's Law Project!
In alphabetical order, here are peoples we understand to be traditionally associated with the lands occupied by Yellowstone National Park:
Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Coeur D'Alene Tribe
Comanche Nation
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Crow Tribe of Montana
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Nez Perce Tribe
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation
Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation
Spirit Lake Tribe
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Yankton Sioux Tribe