Author Event with Robert Aquinas McNally, author of Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.

John Muir is rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to America’s vision of itself. That vision came at a cost, however: the dispossession of the tribal peoples whose homelands the national parks once were. Muir argued for wilderness that would offer spiritual enlightenment to the conquerors, not the Indigenous peoples they conquered. Cast out of Eden tells this neglected part of John Muir’s story, his take on the tribal nations he encountered, and his embrace of an Indigenous-free wilderness ethos. Fortunately, this longstanding injustice is beginning to be undone, as tribal nations and the federal government work together to ensure that public lands serve all Americans equally.

For more info about Robert Aquinas McNally, visit https://www.ramcnally.com/.

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