Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks
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Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-179) and index
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Description
This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.
Table of 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 Rule
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