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On Location: This New Docuseries Explores Humankind's Deep Connections to Yellowstone, Zion, and More
08.09.2024 - 14:21 / cntraveler.com
With more than 325 million people visiting America’s National Park Service sites last year, the natural sanctuaries are some of our country’s most beloved—and popular—travel destinations. Yet during those visits, only a slice of these precious lands comes into view.
Now, a five-part National Geographic Channel documentary series, National Parks: USA (debuting September 8 and streaming the next day on Hulu), peels back the mystique, unveiling how history, geography, and wildlife intertwine beyond the marquee attractions travelers tend to seek out.
Indigenous actor Michael Spears, a member of the Kul Wičaša Lakota from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, narrates the series, with episodes spotlighting five parks: Zion in Utah; Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; Katmai in Alaska; Everglades in Florida, and Olympic in Washington state.
Michael Spears, who narrates National Parks: USA, has generations of connections to Yellowstone National Park (above).
Living north of Yellowstone in the Gallatin Valley, Spears is especially tied to the nation’s first national park. “My connection to the land here goes back to my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's—I can keep on going,” he tells Condé Nast Traveler of the region known as makoče waši, or the “land of abundance,” where tribes once agreed there would be no bloodshed because of the sacred water and plants. “Growing up, I have stories of my grandfather, who was a holy man, sending people over to gather water and medicines from Yellowstone for our healing ceremonies.”
Though his grandfather has since passed, Spears carries forth his knowledge. While narrating the series, the 46-year-old actor—who started his career in Dancing with Wolves (1990), and more recently appeared in FX’s Reservation Dogs, and the Yellowstone prequel 1923—was especially taken by the memories these lands can bring up. “To be able to narrate and talk about my relatives, the animal people [wamakaškaŋ oyate], is a very deep honor,” says Spears.
Below, Spears tells us about the parks that get the spotlight, how we can all be better visitors, and the importance of lending his voice to the series.
Given your connection to Yellowstone, what were you excited about highlighting in the show?
Yellowstone is a place of regeneration, not only for the tatanka, or buffalo, but for Lakota people and the surrounding tribes, in that we’re all survivors. During the time of the buffalos’ near-extinction, there was also the near-extinction of the Native people. We always say the buffalo went through the Holocaust with us. There are stories in which we used geographic areas that were hard to traverse, using the land as our protector. They did the same thing—they went and hid. There
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