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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449933603321

Autore

Spence Mark David

Titolo

Dispossessing the wilderness [[electronic resource] ] : Indian removal and the making of the national parks / / Mark David Spence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-47121-2

0-19-802798-2

1-60256-266-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

978/.00497

Soggetti

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

Wilderness areas - Government policy - United States

National parks and reserves - Government policy - United States

Nature conservation - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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