American Indians and National Forests
384 pages, 6 x 9
38 halftones
Paperback
Release Date:02 May 2017
ISBN:9780816536511
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2017 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation’s forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development.
Marginalized in American society and long denied a seat at the table of public land stewardship, American Indian tribes have at last taken their rightful place and are making themselves heard. Weighing indigenous perspectives on the environment is an emerging trend in public land management in the United States and around the world. The Forest Service has been a strong partner in that movement over the past quarter century.
American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation’s forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development.
Marginalized in American society and long denied a seat at the table of public land stewardship, American Indian tribes have at last taken their rightful place and are making themselves heard. Weighing indigenous perspectives on the environment is an emerging trend in public land management in the United States and around the world. The Forest Service has been a strong partner in that movement over the past quarter century.
Theodore Catton is a historian and co-proprietor of Environmental History Workshop in Missoula, Montana. He is an associate research professor of history at the University of Montana. He is the author of Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska and National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century.
Foreword
Introduction
1 Indians, Non-Indians, and the American Forests to 1900
2 Public Forests and Forests in Trust: The Early Twentieth Century
3 The Indian New Deal and the Forest Service
4 Indian Use of the National Forests to 1950
5 The Termination Era: The 1950s and 1960s
6 Foresters and Indians in a Time of Ferment and Renewal: The 1970s
7 Burial Grounds and Religious Freedoms: The 1980s
8 The New Forestry on National Forests and Reservations: The 1990s
9 Elevating the Tribal Relations Program
10 Tribes and the Healthy Forests Initiative
11 Valuing the Sacred
12 Lessons from Alaska
13 The Nez Perce Tribe and the Forest Service: A Case Study
14 The Twenty-First-Century Partnership
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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