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Title: Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence ISBN: 0-19-514243-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Things We Never Knew: Nat'l Parks, Muir and Native Americans
Comment: Mark David Spence has crafted a fascinating look at three national parks: Yellowstone, Glacier, and Yosemite through the filter, the lense as it were, of Native American presence.
Citizens of the United States did not always see the national parks in terms of an empty wilderness, untrodden by human footsteps. Rather, early on in the 19th century Americans, such as Catlin for example, tended to look at the wilderness in its 'natural' state, that is, its condition before European conquest, advancement, and domination. This state, therefore, included the presence of Native Americans within these three national parks. This presence took on, at times, both a temporary or a permanent character.
Although the book can read with a pace that only a historian would love, there are sufficient insights to enlighten even the armchair historian. Perhaps one of the most fascinating facets is the role that John Muir took in defining Yosemite as a region that should be absent of the Native Americans, the very people who had dwelt in the Valley for centuries. His comments could easily be construed as racist, naive, and bigoted.
I cautiously recommend this book to you, although personally I found it fascinating.
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Title: American Indians & National Parks by Robert H. Keller, Michael F. Turek ISBN: 0816520143 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation by Karl Jacoby ISBN: 0520239091 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks by Philip Burnham ISBN: 155963667X Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon ISBN: 0809016346 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Ted Steinberg ISBN: 0195140095 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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