| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park*. By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xvii + 381 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
Until the early 1990s, virtually no scholarly history covered indigenous relations within our national parks. Then, while Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf pursued their research on Yellowstone, new books by Theodore Catton, Philip Burnham, Mark Spence and others independently reached similar conclusions about land unfairly taken, about Native peoples expelled, about Indian cultures suppressed, and tribal history systematically neglected or distorted.	1
Restoring a Presence does full justice to Yellowstone's place in this complex national picture. The authors define Yellowstone as a large ecosystem, not by park boundaries. They capture the wide appeal of a fascinating, special place in the world. Study methods are explained early in this book of exhausting, if not exhaustive, research. Oral testimony, some of it anonymous, is extensive even though the limits of Indian and white memory, repeated fabrications, and embedded cultural myths make early park history unavoidably squishy at times. The authors praise a remarkable early ethnologist, Ake Hultkrantz (24 bibliographic citations), yet refute Hultkrantz's and others' belief that Indians feared geysers and always shunned the region.	. . .

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