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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | OUP E-Books.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1602562660 9781602562660 9780195118827 0195118820 9780198027980 0198027982 1280471212 9781280471216 9780199848812 0199848815 9786610471218 6610471215 9780199880683 0199880689 |