The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
- ISBN-10
- 0393047555
- ISBN-13
- 9780393047554
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Shepard Krech
Description
Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
