Shawnee

Great Council State Park opened this month – the first and only to feature a center honoring Ohio’s Native peoples.

WYSO got a sneak peek into some features of the Great Council State Park, set to open later this week.

The Great Council State Park in between Yellow Springs and Xenia will feature an interpretive center that will tell stories of the Shawnee's past, present and future.

Before Europeans settled here, Ohio was home to many different indigenous cultures. From the Adena and Hopewell people, who constructed massive earthworks such as the Serpent Mound, to the Lenape or Delaware people, who were forced from their lands on the East Coast by expanding colonies.That history inspired a WOSU listener to ask Curious Cbus if the highways we drive in Ohio today follow the same path as American Indian trails from centuries ago.