Perceptions of Wilderness:An Examination of Native American Utilization of Traditional Plant Resources and Public Lands Management
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom C/D
Start Date
15-5-2014
End Date
15-5-2014
Keywords
Native American Cultures, Ethnography, Public Land Management
Abstract
In 2011, the National Park Service proposed a change in regulations that would allow all federally recognized tribes to request permission to gather plants on parklands for traditional purposes. This modification would reverse decades of exclusionary management to extend the scope of tribal gathering beyond specific parks with treaty-based agreements. My research uses ethnographic methods to conduct a case study of tribal and community responses to the proposed change in the Olympic National Park area. My goal is to understand how people perceive wilderness and how these perceptions reflect people’s reactions to plant gathering on parklands. Documenting people’s opinions on wilderness in context of the proposed change in regulations will add to existing literature on multiple-use land issues, expand public knowledge, and envision the direction in which collaborative land management may be shifting.
Recommended Citation
Shoaf, Kelli, "Perceptions of Wilderness:An Examination of Native American Utilization of Traditional Plant Resources and Public Lands Management" (2014). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 112.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2014/posters/112
Poster Number
29
Additional Mentoring Department
Anthropology and Museum Studies
Perceptions of Wilderness:An Examination of Native American Utilization of Traditional Plant Resources and Public Lands Management
SURC Ballroom C/D
In 2011, the National Park Service proposed a change in regulations that would allow all federally recognized tribes to request permission to gather plants on parklands for traditional purposes. This modification would reverse decades of exclusionary management to extend the scope of tribal gathering beyond specific parks with treaty-based agreements. My research uses ethnographic methods to conduct a case study of tribal and community responses to the proposed change in the Olympic National Park area. My goal is to understand how people perceive wilderness and how these perceptions reflect people’s reactions to plant gathering on parklands. Documenting people’s opinions on wilderness in context of the proposed change in regulations will add to existing literature on multiple-use land issues, expand public knowledge, and envision the direction in which collaborative land management may be shifting.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Pedersen, Lene