National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration

The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation’s Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co—stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves t...