Brower, historian, anthropologist and land surveyor, came to the park region to settle the dispute of the actual location of the Mississippi's headwaters. It was on this journey that Schoolcraft, with the help of an educated missionary companion, created the name Itasca from the Latin words for "truth" and "head" (veritas caput). In 1832, Anishinabe guide Ozawindib, led explorer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft to the source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca. Burial mounds from this era can be seen today at the Itasca Indian Cemetery. They lived in larger, more permanent settlements and made a variety of stone, wood, and bone tools. The Bison Kill site along Wilderness Drive in the park gives visitors historical insight about this period.Ī few thousand years later, a group of people of the Woodland Period arrived at Lake Itasca.
These early people ambushed bison, deer, and moose at watering sites and killed them with stone-tipped spears. Approximately 7-8,000 years ago, Native American hunters pursued wild animals for food in the Itasca State Park region.
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