Some of the historic sites that tell stories of American history have more than one story to tell.
White settlement and westward expansion had a pattern of either ignoring the story of indigenous people and ancestral sites, or of adapting them to tell a new story for the settlers.
Alicia Puglionesi, a historian, explores the trend through several sites, in the book In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire.
Puglionesi explores some of her findings in a visit to the Exchange.