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Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska (New American West Series)

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This volume, the primary within the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska’s vast national-park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts within the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska’s traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished within the forests. Their presence challenged the uninhabited national parks and compelled a posh debate over “inhabited wilderness.” That specialize in three principal national parks—Glacier Bay, Denali, and Gates of the Arctic—the writer explores the speculation of “inhabited wilderness,” which culminated within the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. Among other units, the legislation put aside ten national parks, nine of which permit Alaska natives, whites included, “customary and conventional” subsistence use.

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