More than two dozen American Indian tribes are teaming up with a tourism group and the National Park Service to tell a new story for travelers along historic Route 66. 

The plan is to create a guidebook, using federal grant money that will highlight significant tribal sites along the 2,400 mile route from Chicago to California.

The book will also detail the histories of Native communities that saw their stretch of the West change because of the highway.

Representatives of the Park Service and the Chicago American Indian Center will be among those gathering in New Mexico on Wednesday for a meeting that will kick off the project.

Tribal leaders from the Cherokee Nation, the Muscogee Creek Nation, the Navajo Nation and the Acoma and Laguna pueblos are also expected.

The hope is to share the tribes’ under-told histories and their connections to Route 66.