User:Allthegoodghosts/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Jasper National Park


 * Article Evaluation
 * This evaluation will effectively serve as the evaluation of all the other articles I've chosen, as the core issue I will be tackling is the same: the article significantly underrepresents First Nations land relations with the territory encompassed by the park, both before and after its establishment. This article in particular makes no mention whatsoever of First Nations peoples, even though it mentions the park's status as a World Heritage Site, and the existence of a North West Company trading post in the 19th century.


 * Sources
 * Youdelis, Megan. “‘They Could Take You Out for Coffee and Call It Consultation!’: The Colonial Antipolitics of Indigenous Consultation in Jasper National Park.” Environment and planning A 48, no. 7 (2016): 1374–1392.
 * Reichwein, PearlAnn, and McDermott, Lisa. “Opening the Secret Garden.” In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, edited by I.S. MacLaren, 155-198. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2007.
 * MacLaren, I.S. "Rejuvenating Wilderness: T he Challenge of Reintegrating Aboriginal Peoples into  the “Playground” of Jasper National Park." In A Century of Parks Canada: 1911-2011, edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell, 333-370. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011.
 * Murphy, Peter J. “Homesteading the Upper Athabasca Valley to 1910.” In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, edited by I.S. MacLaren, 123–54. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Kluane National Park


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article doesn't even have a history section, let alone a subsection for First Nations' history. The only mention of First Nations are in relation to land claims in the introduction. Likewise, no mention of the environmental damage that was done during/after WWII (particularly to large fauna) that was a major factor in the park reserve being established.


 * Sources
 * Neufeld, David. "Kluane National Park Reserve, 1923–1974: Modernity and Pluralism." In A Century of Parks Canada: 1911-2011, edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell, 235-272. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011.
 * Sneed, Paul G. "National Parklands and Northern Homelands: Toward Co-management of National Parks in Alaska and the Yukon." In Conservation through cultural survival: indigenous peoples and protected areas, edited by Stan Stevens, 135-154. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
 * Cruikshank, Julie. "Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains." In Indigenous Experience Today, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn. London, UNITED KINGDOM: Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Banff National Park


 * Article Evaluation
 * There are two measly little paragraphs under the "Indigenous History" heading, and one of them doesn't even talk about First Nations at all (it is instead about the construction of the railroad). There is a single small mention of the dispossession of the Stoney Nakoda who had long inhabited the region. This article is marked as being FA, but its treatment of First Nations history is woefully inadequate.


 * Sources
 * Binnema, Theodore (Ted), and Niemi, Melanie. “‘Let the Line Be Drawn Now’: Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada.” Environmental History 11, no. 4 (2006): 724–750.
 * Mason, Courtney Wade. Spirits of the Rockies : Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
 * Langemann, E. Gwyn. "Archaeology in the Rocky Mountain National Parks: Uncovering an 11,000-Year-Long Story." In A Century of Parks Canada: 1911-2011, edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell, 303-332. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Kootenay National Park


 * Article Evaluation
 * Again, a single little paragraph mentioning the Ktunaxa (whose name was appropriated and twisted/anglicized for the park's name), and nothing else.


 * Sources

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Glacier National Park (Canada)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Literally no mention whatsoever of "Indigenous", "Native", "First Nations" or any specific First Nations in the entire article. And yet this article is classified as GA. Settlers gonna settle!


 * Sources