Articles About Indigenous History

• 91.3 WYSO’s ‘The Ohio Country’ centers Indigenous history

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 14, 2024

  

  The planned 12-part series aims to expand its listeners’ understanding of Ohio’s history by providing a perspective that has often been overlooked or obscured — the history of Ohio’s Tribal Nations.

• New state park breaks ground in Oldtown

  By YS News StaffJuly 6, 2022

  

  Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz and Gov. Mike DeWine announced on June 27 that the upcoming park, slated to be completed by 2024, will be named Great Council State Park.

• Vacancy

  By Matt MindeMarch 16, 2022

  

  The planned park, Ohio’s 76th, will aim to to preserve and highlight Oldtown, the site of one of the largest-known Shawnee settlements in Ohio, often cited by historians as the birthplace of Tecumseh.