Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States and was in office from 1901 to 1909. He founded the Carson National Forest in New Mexico in 1906, despite the fact that its land was located on Taos Pueblo Indian territory. Ba Whyea, or Blue Lake, and its surrounding area, in particular, was sacred to the Taos Pueblo and an important part of their ceremonies.
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Theodore Roosevelt Character Timeline in The Inconvenient Indian
The timeline below shows where the character Theodore Roosevelt appears in The Inconvenient Indian. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3. Too Heavy to Lift
...was a dead one.” In a speech he gave in 1886, years before his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt admitted that while not all Indians are better dead, nine out of ten are.
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Chapter 9. As Long as the Grass is Green
...which boasts the third-highest percentage of Indians after Oklahoma and Alaska. Created in 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt , the Carson National Forest is located on what used to be 50,000 acres of...
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