American Indians and national forests

Summary: "This book tells the story of how tribal nations and the U.S. Forest Service dealt with wholesale changes in forest ownership and forest use, changes that alternately alienated Indians from foresters or brought them together in cooperative endeavors"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780816531998
ISBN: 0816531994
Physical Description: print
x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Copyright: �2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-360) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- 1. Indians, non-Indians, and the American forests to 1900 -- 2. Public forests and forests in trust : the early twentieth century -- 3. The Indian New Deal and the Forest Service -- 4. Indian use of the national forests to 1950 -- 5. The termination era : the 1950s and 1960s -- 6. Foresters and Indians in a time of ferment and renewal : the 1970s -- 7. Burial grounds and religious freedoms : the 1980s -- 8. The new forestry on national forests and reservations : the 1990s -- 9. Elevating the Tribal Relations Program -- 10. Tribes and the Healthy Forests Initiative -- 11. Valuing the sacred -- 12. Lessons from Alaska -- 13. The Nez Perce tribe and the Forest Service : a case study -- 14. The twenty-first-century partnership -- Conclusion.