Inhabited wilderness
Subtitle: Indians, Eskimos, and national parks in Alaska
By: Theodore Catton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New American West series
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: United States. National Park Service -- History -- Case studies.; National parks and reserves -- Alaska -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.; Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.; Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Alaska) -- History.; Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) -- History.; Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (Alaska) -- History.
Description: This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished in the forests.

Their presence challenged the uninhabited national parks and forced a complex debate over "inhabited wilderness." Focusing on three principal national parks - Glacier Bay, Denali, and Gates of the Arctic - the author explores the idea of "inhabited wilderness," which culminated in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. Among other units, the legislation set aside ten national parks, nine of which allow Alaska natives, whites included, "customary and traditional" subsistence use.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Land reborn; title: The privileged and the dispossessed; title: Fallen indians; title: "A game country without rival in America"; title: The saga of the seventy-mile kid; title: Bob Marshall's Alaska; title: The lost tribe; title: "We Eskimos would like to join the Sierra Club".