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Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks  Cover Image Book Book

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 0195118820 (acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195118827 (acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-179) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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: Indians of North America > Relocation > West (U.S.)
Wilderness areas > Government policy > United States.
National parks and reserves > Government policy > United States.
Nature conservation > Social aspects > United States.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 98 .R4 S64 1999 258019 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .R4 S64 1999 284320 Stacks Reshelving -

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