Video

Wilderness & Culture

Glacier National Park

Transcript

This is Frank Guardipee, who worked as a park ranger in Glacier starting in 1932. As a Blackfeet tribal member, he was one of the first Indigenous employees in the entire National Park Service. Glacier’s wilderness helps protect human stories, like Frank’s, and the legacy of cultural heritage.

 

From Indigenous history and culture to artifacts of the fur trade era; remnants of the chalet system that brought tourists to Glacier in the early 1900s; or cabins where some of the park's earliest employees stayed, wilderness protects these places and their stories.


From cultural artifacts to remnants of historic chalets, wilderness protects these places and their stories.

 

People, history, and culture are inextricably linked with the landscape of Glacier’s wilderness.

Descriptive Transcript

A series of historic black and white photos with a color gradient over the top of them.

The pictures slide across the video and zoom in slowly.

The first two images are portraits of ranger Frank Guardipee smiling at the camera.

A group picture of rangers standing with Blackfeet people in traditional regalia.

People standing on Going-to-the-Sun Road near a car.

A historic town of log cabins.

A person pushing a mine cart on a mountainside.

A person walking across a mountain snowfield.

Description

2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Ten years after the act was passed, 92% of Glacier was proposed to be formally designated wilderness. On June 13, 1974, Glacier's wilderness recommendation was submitted to Congress -- but it was never enacted. While Congress determines the status of the proposal, Glacier manages its recommended wilderness according to NPS Policy.

Duration

27.594 seconds

Credit

National Park Service

Date Created

09/20/2023

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