National Park Origins—Part 2:
National Parks in the U.S. originated in the context of Manifest Destiny. They became symbols of national progress, reinforced by art depicting western expansion, but their history is also marked by conquest and exclusion of Native Americans, displacing them from #sacred lands.

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https://www.sacredwonderland.us/national-park-origins-2/

#americanProgress is an 1872 painting by #JohnGast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was