Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks / Mark David Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, Mark David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Relocation--West (U.S.).

Indians of North America.

Wilderness areas--Government policy--United States.

Wilderness areas.

National parks and reserves--Government policy--United States.

National parks and reserves.

Nature conservation--Social aspects--United States.

Nature conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservatio

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: From Common Ground; 1 Looking Backward and Westward: The ""Indian Wilderness"" in the Antebellum Era; 2 The Wild West, or Toward Separate Islands; 3 Before the Wilderness: Native Peoples and Yellowstone; 4 First Wilderness: America's Wonderland and Indian Removal from Yellowstone National Park; 5 Backbone of the World: The Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park Area; 6 Crowning the Continent: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park; 7 The Heart of the Sierras, 1864-1916; 8 Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1916-1969

CONCLUSION: Exceptions and the RuleNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-179) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-47121-2

0-19-802798-2

1-60256-266-0

OCLC:

559853003