The women in the article obviously have never met Shelton Johnson.
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/nps/johnson/
“And I can’t not think of the other kids, just like me – in Detroit, Oakland, Watts, Anacostia – today. How do I get them here? How do I let them know about the buffalo soldier history, to let them know that we, too, have a place here?”-Shelton Johnson
Shelton Johnson dreamed of mountains as a boy, living in inner city Detroit. He had never been to a mountain range in the United States and his only experiences with nature and wildlife came through television and movie screens.
Enrolled in an MFA program at the University of Michigan, Shelton applied to be a seasonal worker at Yellowstone, thinking the park would provide a quiet place to work on his writing. “I got off a bus in Gardiner, Montana,” Shelton remembers, “right outside the north entrance....And as I was stepping down onto the ground, there was a bison – a 2,000-pound animal – walking by. There was no one else around and the bison was just strolling by! I looked up at the driver and I said, ‘Does this happen all the time?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘All the time.’ And I said to myself, ‘I have arrived.’”
Shelton Johnson dressed as a Buffalo Soldier, Yosemite National Park
Shelton has been working in national parks ever since, spending time in Yellowstone, Great Basin, and as an interpreter at Fort Dupont Park in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. There, he met students like himself and his friends who had grown up in Detroit – tough inner-city black kids whose understanding of nature was about as distant as Mars. “That’s when I first made the resolution that I had to figure out how to connect these kids with nature, to get them to have a nature experience.”
I know I'd love to see the reports on the 1903-1904 expeditions, especially the Buffalo soldier ranging outside of the park's boundaries and the terrorism of the local 'Digger' populations. But I doubt it'll see the light of day in this PC culture, or worse, if it did come out into the official histories, it'll be blamed on some white man who 'used' those Buffalo soldiers to rape and murder California Indians who occupied land that bordered the park.