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Author Spence, Mark David.

Title Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks / Mark David Spence.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  978.004 S744D    Check Shelf
Description viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-179) and index.
Contents 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 -- Exceptions and the rule.
Subject Wilderness areas -- Government policy -- United States.
Indians of North America -- Relocation -- West (U.S.)
Nature conservation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Relocation -- West (U.S.)
Subject National parks and reserves -- Government policy -- United States.
ISBN 0195118820 (acid-free paper)
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