John Muir in Native America Muir's romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil Photo-Illustrations by Cristiana Couceiro Gerard Baker began his illustrious career with the National Park Service at 20. As a young patrol ranger in the 1970s, he often overheard the park interpreters while he collected trash or mowed lawns. "One thing I noticed," the Mandan/Hidatsa man from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota told me, "is that we were never talked about. From the early, early days of the philosophies on American Indians, we w...