For Founders Day, the museum has asked three individuals affiliated with National Park Service Native sites to share their experiences-two old hands who helped create greater roles for Native staff members and communities, and one young interpreter whose career will bring changes we can only imagine. In many parks, Native American experts interpret Native sites for the Park Service and its many visitors. Collaborations include the Tribal Preservation Program, American Indian Liaison Office, and Ethnography Program. And today the National Park Service works with Native partners to preserve archaeological, historic, and natural sites. The Supreme Court overruled the Race Horse decision in 1999, after a challenge by the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, although tribal rights continue to be argued in state courts. Race Horse (1896), which determined that the creation of the national park and the Lacey Act took precedence over treaty rights. Army during the 1870s and ’80s the Lacey Act of 1894, which prohibited hunting within park boundaries, including traditional tribal hunting rights and Supreme Court decision in Ward v. Yellowstone alone was cleared of its Shoshone, Bannock, Crow, Nez Perce, and other Native peoples by the treaties of Fort Bridger and Laramie, signed in 1868, before the park was established Department of the Interior policies enforced by the U.S. The National Park Service also protects more than 121 million museum objects 68,000 archaeological sites 27,000 historic structures 2,461 natural historic landmarks 40 national heritage areas and 17,000 miles of trails.Īlthough the word wilderness has come to mean areas uninhabited, and largely unchanged, by humankind, in fact hundreds of Native sites are located on National Park Service lands. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the largest park. Iconic parks include the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Everglades National Park, Yosemite National Park, and the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C. territories, and the District of Columbia that total 84 million acres. The National Park Service protects 400 areas-lands and waters in each of the 50 states, U.S. On this 104that National Park Service Founders Day, we recognize and celebrate the preservation and conservation efforts of the National Park Service. The National Park Service was created by the Organic Act of 1916, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25. inalienable for time.” In 1872, the United States pioneered a different modelwhen it established Yellowstone as a national park-perhaps because the Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho territories had not yet been organized into states.
In 1864, the federal government began to act on Catlin’s vision when it granted Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias to the state of California to be “held for public use. a nation’s park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature’s beauty!” In the Dakotas, Catlin wrote that this world should be preserved “by some great protecting policy of government.
Through these travels and interactions, Catlin grew concerned that the expansion of the United States would threaten the Indigenous nations and the beautiful wilderness and wildlife of the land. All along the way, he met and sketched Native tribes and individuals where they lived. In 1832, he began a journey that took him 1,800 miles up the Missouri River. Louis to see the United States’ new western lands. Ten years before, Catlin had set out for St. The artist George Catlin proposed the idea of national parks in 1841, in his book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. (Photo used with the permission of Desirée Shelley Flores) Many of the United States' National Parks are places of historical, cultural, and sacred meaning for Native communities. An Indigenous couple marries on the beach at Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague State Park.
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