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Source: KJZZ

9/6/2022

Documentary Shows the Women of Route 66

Katrina Parks examines the lives of women who came to work and build lives along the "Mother Road" of the west.

Source: The Washington Post

November 19, 2014

Project to show Native American link to Route 66

The lesser known story is that of the more than two dozen American Indian tribes scattered along the 2,400-mile byway, which stretched from Chicago to California.