.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... In his recent essay in The Atlantic, Obijwe tribal member David Treuer proposes returning ownership of America’s national parks to descendants of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited those lands prior to the arrival of white Europeans in North America. If ever there was a scary-brilliant idea, Treuer’s is it. Treuer’s proposal is scary because change is, well, scary. His idea is brilliant because it offers a simple, straightforward way to honor America’s original stewards by returning the most magnificent and iconic portions of the American landscape to their descendants. Yosemite National Park, California Associated Press Treuer proposes turning over ownership of national park lands to modern tribes while leaving oversight of the parks by the National Park Service unchanged. “For Native Americans,” he writes, “there can be no better remedy for the theft of land than land. And for us, no lands are as spiritually significant as the national parks.”