Ethnographic Overview and Assessment: Zion National Park Utah, and Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona

摘要: This is an applied ethnographic study of Southern Paiute cultural resources and how these are related to the natural ecosystems that surround incorporate Zion National Park in southern Utah Pipe Spring Monument northern Arizona. people perceive as places whose significance derives from larger ecological landscapes. view both parks being parts riverine ecosystems. a place along Virgin River, part greater Kanab Creek Hydrological System. The current boundaries largely irrelevant for understanding lives birds fly river, deer who seasonally migrate up down fish swim river. people, ancestors lived thousand years or more, recognize plants they gathered, animals hunted, unrelated two parks. As result, Service Paiutes arrived at same conclusion: is, understand requires knowledge their relationships with other places. Thus it administratively culturally appropriate this follow ecosystem approach. was unique major ways. Unlike many American Indian studies conducted within Parks period time, moved beyond formal NPS units effort them components broader ecosystem. such, built upon scientific social framework ecologically based stewardship Federal lands waters. report provides information relating Park. then incorporated parks’ resource management plans