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5 Jun 2015 11:13 pmFollowing the United States Park Service on Twitter (![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
NatlParkService), I get a lot of beautiful landscape photos, which is nice.
But even having grown up making extensive use of national and state parks, news about them now 100% of the time makes me think "Look at this beautiful view... that was stolen, and whose heirs are probably still living under the yoke of institutionalized oppression."
(This wasn't a thought I had as a child wrt parks, even though I WAS aware of the genocide and brutal conquest of the country.)
Of course, national parks and nature reserves aren't more stolen than the rest of the country, but because they are reserved and preserved from settlement, it seems more glaring, somehow. The images stick. I keep thinking, if they were going to be preserved, why not... leave them... to the tribes that owned them? I mean, because then white people couldn't come stare at the pretty parts whenever they felt like, I guess?
But even having grown up making extensive use of national and state parks, news about them now 100% of the time makes me think "Look at this beautiful view... that was stolen, and whose heirs are probably still living under the yoke of institutionalized oppression."
(This wasn't a thought I had as a child wrt parks, even though I WAS aware of the genocide and brutal conquest of the country.)
Of course, national parks and nature reserves aren't more stolen than the rest of the country, but because they are reserved and preserved from settlement, it seems more glaring, somehow. The images stick. I keep thinking, if they were going to be preserved, why not... leave them... to the tribes that owned them? I mean, because then white people couldn't come stare at the pretty parts whenever they felt like, I guess?
