Iowa Tribe creates national park on Nebraska-Kansas border

November 29th, 2020 | Karen Schmer

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nations largest tribal national park on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and a historic site of its people.

The tribe says the 444-acre park will allow it to tell the story of the Ioway people and provide a rustic getaway where people can hike, camp and bird-watch.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Ioway Tribal National Park will overlook a historic trading village once used by the Ioway people to barter for buffalo hides and pipestones with other tribes. That site includes three burial mounds that date back 3,000 years.

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