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Zusatztext Adding to recent scholarship exploring the cultural construction of nature! this succinct study opens up new areas of research in park service scholarship and paves the way for a more comprehensive study of the role and place of Native Americans in the national parks Klappentext 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 reservation era! it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the USA, the author shows how the early (antebellum era) conceptions of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. The policies of Indian removal at Yosemite and other parks are explored.
