Dear EarthTalk: What’s up with efforts by Native Americans to take back the national parks?
– C. Woodend, Brea, CA
Prior to white settlement, as many as 15 million Indigenous people inhabited what would come to be called the contiguous United States; by the 1890s only about 250,000 remained. Today, roughly five million Native Americans live in the Lower 48, but they control only about two percent of the lands. Recently tribal activists have renewed efforts to remedy this historical misappropriat...