Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks — Empty Wilderness
What if the appearance of untouched wilderness is itself the product of history?
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Using Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence as our lens, this investigation examines the relationship between the creation of national parks and the exclusion of Native peoples from landscapes they had inhabited, traveled through, hunted, gathered from, and shaped for generations.
Spence traces the transformation of wilderness from a landscape that could include Native…
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