In the essay, “The Trouble With Wilderness,” Cronon’s main gripe with the modern interpretation of wilderness is that it is seen as separate from humanity which assigns it a type of fetishistic purity. The problem with this modern interpretation is that people, particularly indigenous people, have actively lived in these ‘wild’ spaces for generations. All across areas of wilderness, people hunted for sustenance and not for sport. They also built homes and other living spaces out of the materials that they could get their hands on. For example, native people in northern California used fallen redwoods for their homes and canoes. This more modern construction of wilderness disregards the existence of indigenous people within these lands and actively erases them. This is seen in the language that American settlers held with the word frontier and the myths associated with it.  The author of the essay stated that the removal of indigenous people shows how constructed the American wilderness is (Cronon pg. 16) The use of the word constructed is important in this instance because it shows the human, particularly Western influence, that led to our modern interpretation of wilderness. Constructed also brings to mind the image of boundaries that are made to bar specific people from these areas. Although these boundaries are made to keep certain people like the natives separate from nature, European Americans have the freedom to cross the boundaries and indulge in a glorified past that has also been constructed. Because ‘wilderness’ as a title has been placed on national parks and other protected areas, indiegnous people struggle maintain their previous connection to the land.