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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. nbsp; 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.
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This excellent anthology features 12 articles originally presented at the 2002 conference "Re-figuring the Ecological Indian." Of uniformly high quality, the essays respond to Shepard Krech's The Ecological Indian (CH, Jan'00, 37-2853), while furthering discussion of historical and contemporary ideas about Native peoples as ecologists and conservationists. Native and non-Native voices engage in respectful dialogue, sometimes refuting and sometimes confirming points raised by Krech, whose original goal was to reopen the exploration of this topic and who succeeded grandly, though not always in ways he intended. Harkin and Lewis provide an erudite introduction elucidating the complex issues involved in this discussion. Krech himself reassesses the impact of his own work and, at the end of the anthology, comments on each of the articles. Wide-ranging temporally and geographically, the collection includes Native societies in the Northwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, Great Basin, and subarctic culture areas. The topics parallel Krech's original volume: Native hunting; representations of ecological Natives and Native ecologies; traditional Native ecological knowledge and action; and contemporary Native ecological practices. This volume provides an important contribution to a critical, ongoing debate. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. R. A. Bucko Creighton University
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Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. xix |
Part 1 Shepard Krech and His Critics | |
1 Beyond The Ecological Indian | p. 3 |
2 The Ecological Indian and the Politics of Representation: Critiquing The Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide | p. 32 |
3 Myths of the Ecological Whitemen: Histories, Science, and Rights in North American-Native American Relations | p. 52 |
Part 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? | p. 95 |
5 Rationality and Resource Use among Hunters: Some Eskimo Examples | p. 123 |
6 Wars over Buffalo: Stories versus Stories on the Northern Plains | p. 153 |
Part 3 Representations of Indians and Animals | |
7 Watch for Falling Bison: The Buffalo Hunt as Museum Trope and Ecological Allegory | p. 173 |
8 Ecological and Un-ecological Indians: The (Non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the Buffalo Commons Literature | p. 192 |
Part 4 Traditional Ecological Knowledge | |
9 Swallowing Wealth: Northwest Coast Beliefs and Ecological Practices | p. 211 |
10 Sustaining a Relationship: Inquiry into the Emergence of a Logic of Engagement with Salmon among the Southern Tlingits | p. 233 |
Part 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 | p. 277 |
12 Skull Valley Goshutes and the Politics of Nuclear Waste: Environment, Identity, and Sovereignty | p. 304 |
Afterword | p. 343 |
List of Contributors | p. 355 |
Index | p. 359 |