Mitse Adazi

The Yellowstone River rises in the Absaroka Mountains and flows into a high lake before turning north through forests and meadows. Below the lake it plunges over two great falls into a deep canyon, then continues towards the Missouri. The Hidatsa name for the river, rendered Mi tse a-da-zi, means “Rock Yellow River”. The surrounding high country was home to the Tukudika, a mountain Shoshone people who hunted bighorn sheep and gathered plants in the Yellowstone region.