This scholarly book studies the reality behind the "ecological Indian" myth, and warns that revisionist historians who perpetuate this false history oversimplify both the positive and negative aspects of the Native American legacy.
How birds shaped the world view of the southern Indians? Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate ...
"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 ...
Between the 1870s and the 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out in part to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects. Many founded museums throughout North America that were meant to ...
Exploring the motivations of Indians involved in the fur trade, the contributors to this volume challenge the spiritualist interpretation set forth by Calvin Martin in "Keepers of the Game," which dismisses the lure of European goods--the power and leisure that firearms and other tools afforded the Indians--and instead attributes the Indians' ...
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Cover Art By Amy Anderson Troyansky] [Rena Lederman, Robin M. Wright, Jonathan D....
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Date Published: 1986
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Ruth Behar, Linda J. Seligmann, Rainer Lutz Bauer, Irving Goldman, Daniel H....
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Publisher: American Society for Ethnohistory / Duke University Press
Date Published: 1987
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Michael Harkin, Cheryl Pomeroy, Daniel L. Boxberger, Jacqueline Peterson, Lin...
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Elisabeth Tooker, Robert A. Brightman, James A. Clifton, Wilcomb E. Washburn,...
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Publisher: American Society for Ethnohistory / Duke University Press
Date Published: 1988
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, William N. Fenton, Ruth Behar, Donald J. Berthrong,...
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Publisher: American Society for Ethnohistory / Duke University Press
Date Published: 1989
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [James L. Axtell, Rebecca Kugel, Thomas M. Wilson, Linda A. Newson, O. Nigel...
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Publisher: American Society for Ethnohistory / Duke University Press
Date Published: 1990
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(Ethnohistory) Krech III, Shepard (Editor) [Scott O'Mack, William A. Starna, Ralph Watkins, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Alice B....
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Publisher: American Society for Ethnohistory / Duke University Press
Date Published: 1991
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Date Published: 1992
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Date Published: 1986
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England
