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The sovereign Tribal Nations of Yellowstone formally requested the Yellowstone Superintendent to support changing this to Buffalo Nations Valley. Ferdinand Hayden was a geologist who led the first federally funded geological survey of Yellowstone in 1871. His report was essential in persuading Congress to establish the national park. His report also called for the forced assimilation or, failing that, extermination of Native Americans. Other writings of his also demonstrate his white supremacist worldview, used by settler colonizers to justify dispossessing Native Americans from their lands.