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Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks /

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 th...

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Основен автор: Spence, Mark David.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Предмети:
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.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Indians of North America > Relocation.
National parks and reserves > Government policy.
Nature conservation > Social aspects.
Wilderness areas > Government policy.
United States > .
United States, West.
Humaniora > Historie.
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Dispossessing the wilderness.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: from common ground
  • Looking backward and westward: the "Indian wilderness" in the antebellum era
  • The wild west, or toward separate islands
  • Before the wilderness: native peoples and Yellowstone
  • First wilderness: America's wonderland and indian removal from Yellowstone National Park
  • Backbone of the world: the Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park area
  • Crowning the continent: the American wilderness ideal and Blackfeet exclusion from Glacier National Park
  • The heart of the sierras, 1864-1916
  • Yosemite Indians and the National Park ideal, 1916-1969
  • Conclusion: exceptions and the rule.

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