Native Americans and US national parks: A historical wound begins to heal | AFP

Beloved by Americans and foreign tourists alike, US National Parks used to be part of the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples. But the latter were either expelled from them, or forced to cede them through treaties with clauses that were easily betrayed. Today tribes are reckoning with this heavy heritage, and trying to work with the parks to begin "healing those landscapes that were robbed" from them.
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For more on Parks & Native Americans see AMERICAN INDIANS & NATIONAL PARKS Keller & Turek, 1998. University of Arizona Press

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Slowly but surely. The best thing about all this to me is, there are still the people, and some who still have knowledge after years of not even being able to practice their religions, and having their children sent to boarding schools, it quite a gift to still have the people and knowledge! I know much has been destroyed, but not all.... USA is not really that old and seems to be sick from the inside.... we need the Indigenous people to care for the land, animals, water, and each other with methods that worked for thousands of years.... I fully believe things will move back to that way again.... Love to all!