Book contents
- A Third Way
- A Third Way
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal History and Foundations
- 2 The Jurisdictional Framework of the Second Way and the Cherokee Diaspora
- 3 Religious Freedom, the Value of Sacred Places, and the Price of Cultural Ignorance
- 4 Clashing Values, the Blackfeet, and a Measure of Success in the Badger-Two Medicine
- 5 Federal Cultural Protection Statutes
- 6 Tribal Laws
- 7 Both Ends of the Spectrum and Everything in Between
- 8 Indigenous Cultures and Intellectual Property
- 9 A Third Way for the Future
- Index
4 - Clashing Values, the Blackfeet, and a Measure of Success in the Badger-Two Medicine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2020
- A Third Way
- A Third Way
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal History and Foundations
- 2 The Jurisdictional Framework of the Second Way and the Cherokee Diaspora
- 3 Religious Freedom, the Value of Sacred Places, and the Price of Cultural Ignorance
- 4 Clashing Values, the Blackfeet, and a Measure of Success in the Badger-Two Medicine
- 5 Federal Cultural Protection Statutes
- 6 Tribal Laws
- 7 Both Ends of the Spectrum and Everything in Between
- 8 Indigenous Cultures and Intellectual Property
- 9 A Third Way for the Future
- Index
Summary
The clash of values in indigenous cultural preservation efforts on public lands is readily apparent in the case of the Blackfeet Confederacy and their ceded sacred territory in the Rocky Mountain Front of north central Montana. There, the Rocky Mountains rise from the Great Plains like a snow-covered apparition impossibly hovering above the undulating prairie below. The beauty of these nearly 30,000 square miles of the so-called Crown of the Continent is hard to describe in words, with heavily forested valleys containing wild-flowing rivers, framed by bare alpine peaks on either side. Biologists and ecologists value the Crown because it is home to some of the last great populations of large carnivores, native fish, and untrammeled wilderness, including unbroken natural wildlife corridors spanning hundreds of miles. These corridors are made up of several areas of protected public lands in the United States and Canada, including Glacier National Park; Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park; and the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Great Bear Wilderness areas in addition to several national forests. The area has also been home to the Blackfeet and other indigenous peoples since time immemorial.
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- A Third WayDecolonizing the Laws of Indigenous Cultural Protection, pp. 57 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020