Long before British settlers made their way west to settle in Kentucky, Native Americans called the Bluegrass state their home. Growing up, I remember learning that this area of the country was mostly just land open for hunting, but that isn’t historically accurate.
Anthropologists know from documented research and excavation that several Indigenous tribes lived here as long as 12,000 years ago. Depending on where you are in the state, you reside on primarily Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Osage land…