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John Muir's Contradictions About People of Color and Conservation
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The Sierra Club's founder, John Muir, had negative and contradictory views about people of color, including Indigenous peoples of the United States, despite aligning with his environmentalist philosophies. The early notion for national parks intended for Native Americans to continue living on the land as they always had, but it eventually shifted to white people protecting and enjoying the land instead.

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