Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National ParksNational parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century. |
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User Review - lisamunro - LibraryThingThis is a concise history of the creation of three of America's most cherished national parks: Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park. Spence argues, however, that these are far from the ... Read full review
野生の略奪・奪取：インディアンの排除と国立公園の創造
1812年戦争を契機に北西部と南部でインディアンから奪取した広大な土地
1990年3月、JAHは環境史について紙上討論ノバを設定：環境史が歴史学の主要分野の一つとなった。（上野）
人里離れた場所の原生自然を守る運動は、「アメリカの発明」と呼ばれる国立公園制度を作った。1872年イエローストーン 騎兵隊の駐留 1916年内務省国立公園局
1960年 鵜月
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National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century. 国立公園の起源・創造 白人植民者によるインディアンの占有地の奪取；連邦政府のインディアン政策と保全(conservation)の努力：一方で、功利主義的な考え方や経済的進歩に価値を置く姿勢を保ちつつ、他方で公共利益のために専門知識をもった連邦政府の官僚が資源の効率的管理を任されることになった。これを一般に保全という。
人の住まない荒地(wilderness)の理想
初期保留地時代における国立公園の歴史 国立公園が原住民と非原住民に間のもっとも重要な分野の一つで展開する。
小塩 シエラ・クラブを創設したジョン・ミューアは自然それ自体の完全な保護(preservation)を主張した。保全と保護とは対立し、例えばヨセメテ公園へのヘッチハンダー渓谷にダムを建設してＳＦに水を供給する政策論争では、保全派が勝利する。
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"A landmark historical reconstruction of a forgotten story--the eviction of American Indians from a troika of our nation's major parks: Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier. Spence documents the separate but symbiotic developments of the Indian reservation and recreational park systems, the former to corral Indians, the latter to sequester nature; with the twain never to interact therafter. Spence underpins his three compelling narratives with a clear exposition of the evolving 'wilderness' and 'preservationist' ideologies which spelled exclusion for Indian residents of these natural wonders. His riveting chronicle concludes with current tensions, as Indians are attempting to reclaim special rights to these sacrosanct areas and parks are struggling to correct a century of native dispossessions and misrepresentions of the cultural/historical record."--Peter Nabokov, Department of World Arts & Cultures and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
"Mark Spence reminds us that the national parks of the United States, which most Americans today regard as sublimely uninhabited wilderness areas, were once home to native peoples who were dispossessed as the parks were created. This book is an important and thought provoking contribution to our understanding of the American landscape and its history."--William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Stimulating, provocative, and richly researched, Dispossessing the Wilderness pushes us to reassess traditional views of the creation of our national parks in the light of
Contents
From Common Ground | 3 |
Looking Backward and Westward The Indian Wilderness in the Antebellum Era | 9 |
The Wild West or Toward Separate Islands | 25 |
Before the Wilderness Native Peoples and Yellowstone | 41 |
First Wilderness Americas Wonderland and Indian Removal from Yellowstone National Park | 55 |
Backbone of the World The Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park Area | 71 |
Crowning the Continent The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park | 83 |
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| Title | Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks |
| Author | Mark David Spence |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0195142438, 9780195142433 |
| Length | 190 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas History / United States / 19th Century Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies |
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