In US national parks, a historical wound begins to heal

As a member of the Tohono O'odham nation, he didn't want to talk too much about his new job at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. "I was afraid of what my people might think of me," the 28-year-old confides. "Why work for a place that has done us so much harm in the past?" Most national parks were set up in areas that are Indigenous ancestral lands. From the 19th century onwards, Native Americans were expelled from those lands or forced to cede them via treaties with unequal terms. It is a disturbing...