TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spence,Mark David
TI  - Dispossessing the wilderness: Indian removal and the making of the national parks 
SN  - 0195118820
AV  - E98.R4 S64 1999
U1  - 978.00497 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Relocation
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Wilderness areas
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - National parks and reserves
KW  - Nature conservation
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-179) and index; 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
N2  - "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."--Publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/98027456-b.html
ER  -