Native Americans and the environment : perspectives on the ecological Indian
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Michael Eugene Harkin; David Rich Lewis
- ناشر : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780803273610
Description
Foreword / Judith Antell -- Preface / 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. pt. 4. Traditional ecological knowledge -- 9. Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Michael E. Harkin -- 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 --
Explores related historical and contemporary themes and subjects involving Native Americans and the environment. This volume examines topics as divergent as Pleistocene extinctions and the problem of storing nuclear waste on modern reservations.
