Item Detail
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31569
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English
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Public Lands and American Indians : Traditional Use and Off-Reservation Treaty Rights
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2020
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88
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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115-120
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"The public lands in the western United States are valued and considered significant by many individuals and groups. Native American tribal cultural and historical perspectives are different than they are for other user groups, given the tribes’ long historical ties to the land. Tribal beliefs and actions are often silent and unseen by the public, and are often misunderstood, denied, or ignored by the general public and by state and federal land managers. This is largely due to Indian displacement that occurred on what became public lands. In the Great Basin region, the removal of Native peoples from their indigenous homelands onto reservations made room for Euro-American settlers, ranchers, miners, and others, and for federal claims of ownership to the public domain. The removal of Indian people from their lands, whether forcible or voluntarily, generally stripped them of authorized use of those lands, creating a need for Native peoples to return surreptitiously to utilize necessary subsistence resources and traditional locations." [Author]