However, they were quickly displaced when white explorers first entered the area.
The name of the first white explorer to stumble upon Blackwater Falls is not known.
Early white explorers reported the Sinixt to be of average height and size, with hazel eyes.
Native Americans used the Warner Valley for thousands of years before the first white explorers arrived.
When asked by early white explorers, the tribe said their ancestors came from "up North".
In the 1870s, early white explorers described the Warumungu as a flourishing nation.
Throughout the second half of the 18th century white explorers, starting with Christopher Gist in 1750, came to the area.
Of all the major elements that made the Yellowstone ecosystem function before white explorers appeared on the scene, only the wolf is still missing.
Early white explorers used the wood to make nails.
The previous major Yellowstone fire was in the early to mid-18th century, well before the arrival of white explorers.
