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Title:

Native Americans and the environment : perspectives on the ecological Indian / edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis ; foreword by Judith Antell ; preface by Brian Hosmer ; afterword by Shepard Krech III.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxxiv, 367 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--North America.
Indian philosophy--North America.
Philosophy of nature--North America.
Human-animal relationships--North America.

Other Authors:

Harkin, Michael Eugene, 1958-
Lewis, David Rich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun -- 8. Brian Hosmer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Michael E. Harkin -- pt. 1. Shepard Krech and his critics -- 1. Beyond The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III -- 2. The ecological Indian and the politics of representation : critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Darren J. Ranco -- 3. Myths of the ecological whitemen : histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / Harvey A. Feit -- pt. 2. (Over)hunting large game -- 4. Did the ancestors of Native Americans cause animal extinctions in late-pleistocene North America? : and does it matter if they did? / Robert L. Kelly and Mary M. Prasciunas -- 5. Rationality and resource use among hunters : some Eskimo examples / Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- 6. Wars over buffalo : stories versus stories on the northern Plains / Dan Flores -- pt. 3. Representations of Indians and animals -- 7. Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / John Dorst -- 8. Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun --
12. Index. 9. Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Shepard Krech III -- 10. Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Stephen J. Langdon -- pt. 5. Contemporary resource management issues -- 11. The politics of cultural revitalization and intertribal resource management : the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota / Larry Nesper and James H. Schlender -- 12. Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste : environment, identity, and sovereignty / David Rich Lewis -- Afterword / Shepard Krech III -- List of contributors -- Index.

ISBN:

0803273614 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780803273610 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70176885

LCCN:

2006020776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)