03391nam 2200637 a 450 991044993360332120200520144314.01-280-47121-20-19-802798-21-60256-266-0(CKB)1000000000028882(EBL)241399(OCoLC)559853003(SSID)ssj0000140013(PQKBManifestationID)11146868(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140013(PQKBWorkID)10028959(PQKB)11316067(MiAaPQ)EBC241399(MiAaPQ)EBC4786936(Au-PeEL)EBL241399(CaPaEBR)ebr10085416(EXLCZ)99100000000002888219980610d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDispossessing the wilderness[electronic resource] Indian removal and the making of the national parks /Mark David SpenceNew York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511882-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-179) and index.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, 1916-1969CONCLUSION: 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; YNational 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 reservatioIndians of North AmericaRelocationWest (U.S.)Wilderness areasGovernment policyUnited StatesNational parks and reservesGovernment policyUnited StatesNature conservationSocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.Indians of North AmericaRelocationWilderness areasGovernment policyNational parks and reservesGovernment policyNature conservationSocial aspects978/.00497Spence Mark David851223MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910449933603321Dispossessing the wilderness1900595UNINA