Dispossessing the Wilderness

National parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. 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.