National Park Vandal
Anyone know Casey Nocket? The feds are looking for her. From Modern Hiker; Apparently she is a New Yorker who went on a great western adventure this summer. She considers herself an artist...
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beemerphile1 wrote:korbe wrote:
when the Native Americans did it, it was considered historical and worth saving.
At that time the Native Americans owned/controlled the land. Now the citizens of the USA own/control the land through the government. She didn't get my permission!
When the First Nations People did petroglyphs and pictographs there were as many reasons for doing it as there are today, but there was no other medium available to them and it was their only way to preserve what they did on a daily or seasonal basis.
The gracious and loving Europeans had not brought their civilized way and their paper and pen and diseases here yet. Neither had Teddy Roosevelt established the first National Park or provided any real protection for the things we now consider National Treasures.
And that my fried is the deference between cultural history and cultural lawlessness.
