Women in National Parks

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• Forbes: "Burt's Bees Cofounder On Why She Gave Away 87,000 Acres In Maine"
  A Forbes article describes Roxanne Quimby's business and conservation activities and donation of the land to form Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Article includes related images.
• Roxanne Quimby
  Roxanne Quimby is pictured while donating 100 acres of land on Mount Desert Island to Acadia National Park for the occasion of the park's centennial.
• ABC News article: "735 acres of ancestral land returned to Penobscot Nation"
  An article from ABC News describes the return of 735 acres of ancestral lands to the Penobscot Nation. The land had been owned by the Elliotsville Foundation, Roxanne Quimby's land trust which also donated the federal lands to form Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. Quimby's family describes their land donations as part of a reparations process and restoration of ancestral Wabanaki lands.
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• Presentation: Indigenous Women of Alcatraz and the Red Power Movement
  Women played a key role in organizing and maintaining the occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969-1971) yet their story is often overlooked. This panel, moderated by original occupier Dr. La Nada War Jack, explores the role of women in the indigenous rights movement from the occupation to the present. Please join us to hear the stories of these remarkable women who continue the hard work of positive change. Dr. LaNada War Jack is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes where she lives on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. In January of 1968 she was the first Native American student enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with honors in an Independent Major of Native American Law & Politics. While attending UC Berkeley, Dr. War Jack participated as the first Native American component of the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide effort in establishing Native American Studies, African American Studies, Chicano Studies and Asian Studies. She is the author of Native Resistance An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life.
• You Are On Indian Land
  Three girls stand next to the messaging of the occupation found on Alcatraz Island during the Occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists
• Native American Maggie
• Close up of Maggie peeking out of unfinished chucka.
• Maggie Howard cooking back of Museum.
• Ta-buce out gathering acorns and grass seeds, Ahwahnee Mdw. 1930's
• Ta-buce (Maggie Howard) among oaks picking acorns.
• Ta-buce, or Maggie Howard, out after acorns
• Selected pages from the Tektite II Program Plan
  Selected pages (5, 13-15) including the cover page and introduction from the U.S. Department of the Interior Tektite II Program Plan document.
• New York Times article "5 Women Scientists Start 2-Week Stay Under Sea"
  Full text of a New York Times article on the start of the Tektite II all-female dive team mission. The article seems to take a sexist tone in discussing the physiques and hairstyles of the participating scientists, and explains that a hair dryer has been provided in the habitat in a "concession to femininity."
• Image of a July 7, 1970 New York Times article on the all-female Tektite II mission
  Image of the July 7, 1970 print issue of a New York Times article on the Tektite II mission and all-female team.
• Proclamation 9476 of August 24, 2016: Establishment of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
  Presidential proclamation of August 24, 2016 declaring the establishment of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, signed by President Barack Obama and recognizing Roxanne Quimby's contribution of funds for establishment of the park: "WHEREAS, the Roxanne Quimby Foundation has established a substantial endowment with the National Park Foundation to support the administration of a national monument..."
• Roxanne Quimby on Mount Katahdin
  Roxanne Quimby at the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail on Mount Katahdin, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
• Instagram post advertising virtual visits to Acadia National Park
  A female ranger films herself in Acadia National Park in a photograph advertising virtual ranger programs offered by the National Park Service.
• Sara Thomas speaks to visitors in Shenandoah National Park.
  NPS seasonal ranger Sara Thomas speaks to visitors in Shenandoah National Park.
• NPS employee models her uniform on the National Mall.
  An NPS employee on the National Mall "wearing the 1974 NPS women's uniform with a white turtleneck and platform shoes." (National Park Service Archive)
• NPS employee and children at Gettysburg National Military Park.
  A female NPS employee appears to lead educational or reenactment programming with children, some carrying weapons, at Gettysburg National Military Park.
• Costumed interpreter at Gettysburg National Military Park.
  A costumed interpreter speaks to visitors at Gettysburg National Military Park.