Title The ecological Indian : myth and history / Shepard Krech III.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-308) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Pleistocene extinctions -- The Hohokam -- Eden -- Fire -- Buffalo -- Deer -- Beaver -- Epilogue.
Summary	"While many Americans are attached to a romantic, idealized view of the human relation to nature in North America prior to European contact, anthropologist Shepard Krech III attempts to examine what characterized actual Native American beliefs and actions. Native Americans had a vast and impressive store of knowledge about the natural world but, like everyone else, couldn't always foresee the consequences of their acts and didn't always act the way they believed they should. Nor were their beliefs always perfectly adaptive to changing circumstances." "The Ecological Indian addresses such fascinating questions as: Were Pleistocene-era humans responsible for the extinction of large mammals like the mastodon? Did the Hohokam of Arizona destroy their society by overirrigating and ultimately oversalinating their crops? What role did Native Americans play in the near-extinctions of the deer, the beaver, and the buffalo? How did Native Americans use fire? Was the natural "Eden" that awed the first European visitors a feature of native "environmentalism" or just of very low population density?"--Jacket.
Subject	North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
	Philosophy of nature -- North America.
	Indian philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00969168
	Mythen.
	Indigenous peoples in popular culture -- North America.
	Philosophy of nature. (OCoLC)fst01060845
	Nature -- Philosophy.
	Human ecology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00962959
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Public opinion.
Subject	Indian philosophy -- North America.
	Mens en natuur.
	Indianen.
	Indians of North America -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00969883
	Public opinion -- North America.
	Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
	Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
	Human ecology -- North America -- Philosophy.
Local Subject	Indigenous philosophy -- North America.
Other Form:	Online version: Krech, Shepard, 1944- Ecological Indian. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1999 (OCoLC)763128945
ISBN	0393047555
	9780393047554
	0393321002
	9780393321005
	0613914147
	9780613914147
Standard No.	9780393321005

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