Yellowstone National Park was seized from Native people promised the territory

Evidence

The land itself was promised as “Indian territory” by the U.S. Congress, but in 1872 was seized from the Native people to create Yellowstone National Park, with a mission to “protect native species,” thus allegedly assuring the survival of the Yellowstone buffalo. By the late 1880s, the Native people who lived in Yellowstone were forced from their lands within the park’s boundaries and restricted to reservations. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Parks-as-dispossession directly parallels Everglades National Park displacing Seminoles (ch4) and connects to settler-colonial critique thread in the polyad. — connects to: Everglades National Park creation displaced Seminole families from their homes — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 185; US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land; American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples #exemplifies (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273
• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #expands (0.80)
• Settler nations were built on stolen land and enslaved people. #expands (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 763
• Colonists survived by seizing what Indigenous peoples had already built. #expands (0.72) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 113