RETURN the NATIONAL PARKS to the TRIBES.

NATIONAL parks & reserves; FEDERALLY recognized Indian tribes; NATIVE Americans; THEFT

YELLOWSTONE National Park; UNITED States

The author discusses the need for the U.S. government to return the national parks to the Native American nations. The author talks about the creation of parks in the following the arrival of the Mariposa Battalion on Yosemite Valley in 1851, the tendency for Native Americans to claim and the rights being ignored, the spiritual significance of the national parks to Native Americans, and the theft of Yellowstone Park from the Blackfeet people by the government.