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Ecological Indian
Author | : Shepard Krech III |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393321005 |
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"A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post
The Ecological Indian
Author | : Shepard Krech |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Human ecology |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105060433724 |
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Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ecological Indian
Author | : Shepard Krech,Shepard Krech III |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393321002 |
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Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Native Americans and the Environment
Author | : Michael Eugene Harkin,David Rich Lewis |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780803205666 |
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Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia-as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson worked together.
American Indian Environments
Author | : Christopher Vecsey,Robert W. Venables |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1980-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0815622279 |
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Reflecting a variety of disciplines, approaches, and viewpoints, this collection of ten essays by both Indians and non-Indians covers a wide range of historical periods, areas, and topics concerning the changes in Indian environmental experiences. Subjects include the role of the environment in religions; white practices of land use and the exploitation of energy resources on reservations; the historical background of sovereignty, its philosophy and legality; and the plight of various uprooted Indians and the resulting clashes between Indian groups themselves as they compete for scarce resources. From the Canadian Subarctic to Ontario's Grassy Narrows, from the Iroquois to the Navajo, American Indian Environments is an important contribution to understanding the Indians' attitude toward and dependence upon their environment and their continued struggles with non-Indians over it.
Changes in the Land
Author | : William Cronon |
Publsiher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781429928281 |
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.
The Way of the Human Being
Author | : Calvin Martin |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300085524 |
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In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
Seeing Green
Author | : Finis Dunaway |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226169903 |
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"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over"--Publisher info.