“I loved this place, and it always felt like home,” recalled White Calfe, a citizen of the MHA Nation. “And when I got a little older, I realized that’s because it was home. These depressions out here, they were actually my people’s homes, my family’s homes. That was the primary reason that it felt like home, calling a deep spiritual connection that was part of me.” When White Calfe became a park ranger, Knife River was his first gig. He would go on to work at Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Though White Calfe has moved on from Knife River, he recognizes the significance of the land.
I am so jealous. Where would the average white American find as true a homeland as the native tribes
