The words peace, sanctity, and sanctuary prompt the question: Sanctuary for whom? This is to say nothing of the ahistorical vision of a place “as it was meant to be,” as though it had always looked that way and did not contain histories of violence, plundering, and murder. Writers like Mark David Spence, author of Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks, have recounted how the establishment of National Parks and wilderness areas in the United States not only violated treaties with indigenous tribes, but also constructed wholesale the American idea of a
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