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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Mark David Spence
Mark Spence's history of how America's national parks were created by removing the indigenous people who lived in them. Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier — each park was somebody's home before it was nobody's. Essential and uncomfortable.
Ecology & Conservation
Indigenous knowledge
History
American Southwest
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2000
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