Maps, documents, drawings and photos depict more than 400 years of Native American History in Person County. The story is told by the Sapponys, a Siouan tribe inhabiting Person County for over 200 years.

The history begins with a European map acknowledging the tribe's presence. That map, based on one made in 1612 by Virginia colonists John Smith, shows the tribe west of the Chesapeake Bay, close to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The tribe was identified as the Monassukapanough but the name was later changed to Sappony.

William Byrd II, one of Virginia's boundary commissioners drawing the Virginia–North Carolina border, had a Sappony guide. Byrd described the Sappony people as "the honestest and the bravest."

Encroachment forced the tribe to follow westward trading paths which led them to their High Plains community in Person County. Native American families took the surnames of traders such as Eppses, Shepherds and Stewarts. Other famileis—Martins, Johnsons, Talleys and Colemans—joined them and began to farm, raising tobacco, to become self-sufficient.

The first Native American church was established in 1830 and the first school by 1879.

The exhibit illustrates life in the community, called High Plains, and centered around a school which was closed in 1962, and a Baptist church, which still exists and where most of the local Native Americans worship today.

The Sappony insignia is displayed at the entrance of the exhibit room. It features seven feathers paying homage to seven families. Crops are represented along with three arrowheads and three stars.