2022
Notes on American landscape painting
advertising the western frontier from a naïve romanticism about the uninhabited wild
manifest destiny as defensive against other European colonization
the grand unknowable sublime landscape as propaganda
selling an identity overseas of majestic natural beauty in this “unsettled land”
a nationalist identity based in this month-long distance from our onlookers (competitors) in Britain which allowed creative liberties to be taken
exaggerated grandeur and ornamentation in depictions of landscape, and the creation of idealized fictional landscapes
projecting over-the-top spectacles of majesty onto already sacred land
The Mill, Sunset by Thomas Cole
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A Woodland Waterfall by John Frederick Kensett
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After the Rain in the Salt Marshes by Martin Johnson Heade
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Sunset on the Rocks by Martin Johnson Heade
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Landscape, Welsh Mountain by Asher B. Durand
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Schooner Closed Hauled by Alfred Thompson Bricher
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Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives by Frederic Edwin Church
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Sunset Glow by William Keith
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Grand Canyon by Thomas Moran
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Title 25 - Indians
Title 43 - Public Lands
Title 54 - National Park System
Notes on public land and the law
from the Native Organizers Alliance
Statutes at Large, Volume 7 (1st – 29th Congress)
Statutes at Large, Volume 4 (21st Congress, 1st Session) Public Law 21-148
1830 Indian Removal Act signed by Andrew Jackson (considered the people’s president)
empowered the forced removal of Native folks resistant to move from their home to the west of the Mississippi.
Statutes at Large, Volume 13 (38th Congress, Session 1) Public Law 38-184
1864 Grant for the "Yo-Semite Valley" and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove signed by Abraham Lincoln
the first instance of park land being set aside specifically for preservation and public use by action of the U.S. federal government
Statutes at Large, Volume 17 (42nd Congress, Session 2) Public Law 42-24
1872 Yellowstone National Park Protection Act signed by Ulysses S. Grant
re-claimed Yellowstone as federal land/a National Park
Statutes at Large, Volume 34 (59th Congress, Session 1) Public Law 59-209
1906 Antiquities Act signed by Theodore Roosevelt
authorized presidential authority to proclaim national monuments from federal lands prohibiting appropriation, excavation, or destruction to the site.
Statutes at Large, Volume 39 (64th Congress, 1st Session) Public Law 64-235
1916 National Parks Service Organic Act signed by Woodrow Wilson
preserved unique resources and provided for their enjoyment by the public
the beginning of Title 54
Statutes at Large, Volume 67 (83rd Congress, 1st Session)
terminated and reallocated the Native American federal trust towards national debt and the Cold War
re-instigated aggressive acclamation policy
Volume 12, Part 1, p794 (PDF p816) of TIAS
1961 Antarctica Treaty signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower 1959 after convening the Antarctic Conference of the twelve countries active in Antarctica during the Cold War
an agreement to preserve Antarctica for scientific research
Statutes at Large, Volume 78 (88th Congress, 2nd Session) Public Law 88-577
1964 Wilderness Act signed by Lyndon B. Johnson
defined and protected existing federal land and land determined to have minimal human imprint, opportunities for unconfined recreation, at least five thousand acres, and educational, scientific, or historical value as federal wilderness
prohibited commercial enterprises or mechanical transport
Some administrative acronyms regarding public land
Manages the
Miscellaneous info
US = 2,271,343,360 acres total
US = 2,271,343,360 acres total
Artifacts have been connected to Native Americans from the Paleo period
