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Breaking New Ground

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Island Press, Jul 1, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 522 pages
The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted" by people who had little if any choice in the matter. Places like the Grand Canyon's south rim and Glacier had to be bought, finagled, borrowed - or taken by force - when Indian occupants and owners resisted the call to contribute to the public welfare. The story of national parks and Indians is, depending on perspective, a costly triumph of the public interest, or a bitter betrayal of America's native people.In Indian Country, God's Country historian Philip Burnham traces the complex relationship between Native Americans and the national parks, relating how Indians were removed, relocated, or otherwise kept at arm's length from lands that became some of our nation's most hallowed ground. Burnham focuses on five parks: Glacier, the Badlands, Mesa Verde, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley. Based on archival research and extensive personal visits and interviews, he examines the beginnings of the national park system and early years of the National Park Service, along with later Congressional initiatives to mainstream American Indians and expand and refurbish the parks. The final chapters visit the parks as they are today, presenting the thoughts and insights of superintendents and rangers, tribal officials and archaeologists, ranchers, community leaders, curators, and elders. Burnham reports on hard-won compromises that have given tribes more autonomy and greater cultural recognition in recent years, while highlighting stubborn conflicts that continue to mark relations between tribes and the parks.Indian Country, God's Country offers a compelling - and until now untold -story that illustrates the changing role of the national parks in American society, the deep ties of Native Americans to the land, and the complicated mix of commerce, tourism, and environmental preservation that characterize the
  

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I made it to page 275 or halfway through after five weeks. A matter of fact account of how the Forest Service came to fruition. Interesting info on the French School of Forestry in Nancy but I couldn ... Read full review

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Breaking New Ground - Gifford Pinchot - ISBN 9781559636704
The autobiography of Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the first chief of the US Forest Service
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USDA Forest Service - Conservation and the Arts
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About the author (1998)

Char Miller is professor and chair of the history department at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Miller is the author of many articles on environmental history, politics, and other issues for a wide range of publications, both professional and popular. He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. For Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, Miller won the following awards: Independent Publisher Book Award Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Gold Award 2001 National Outdoor Book Award Connecticut Book Award Booklist Magazine (April 2001), Top Ten Biographies of Social Activists

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TitleBreaking New Ground
AuthorGifford Pinchot
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherIsland Press, 1998
ISBN1610912551, 9781610912556
Length522 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Nature / Ecology
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Forestry
  
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