Native Americans and the Environment
Subtitle: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian
Contributors: Judith Antell (Foreword); Shepard Krech (Afterword); Michael E. Harkin (Editor, Introduction); David Rich Lewis (Editor, Introduction); Brian Hosmer (Preface)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780803273610
Subjects: Human ecology; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Human Services; Native American; Social Science / Native American Studies; Ecology; Indian philosophy; North America; Philosophy of nature; Human Geography
Description: "Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological Indian. Hailed as a masterful synthesis and yet assailed as a problematic political tract, Shepard Krech?s work prompted significant discussions in scholarly communities and among Native Americans. Rather than provide an explicit assessment of Krech?s thesis, the contributors to this volume explore related historical and contemporary themes and subjects involving Native Americans and the environment, reflecting their own research and experience. At the same time, they also assess the larger issue of representation. The essays examine topics as divergent as Pleistocene extinctions and the problem of storing nuclear waste on modern reservations. They also address the image of the?ecological Indian? and its use in natural history displays alongside a consideration of the utility and consequences of employing such a powerful stereotype for political purposes. The nature and evolution of traditional ecological knowledge is examined, as is the divergence between belief and practice in Native resource management. Geographically, the focus extends from the eastern Subarctic to the Northwest Coast, from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains to the Great Basin."--Publisher's description.