Biodiversity And Native America
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Biodiversity And Native America
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Author : Paul E. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2001-08-01
Biodiversity And Native America written by Paul E. Minnis and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-01 with Nature categories.
Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog
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Author : David Rich Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-10-06
Neither Wolf Nor Dog written by David Rich Lewis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-06 with History categories.
During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural traditions reflected distinct subsistence adaptations to life in the western United States. Each experienced the full weight of federal agrarian policy yet responded differently, in culturally consistent ways, to subsistence change and the resulting social and environmental consequences. Attempts to establish successful agricultural economies ultimately failed as each group reproduced their own cultural values in a diminished and rapidly changing environment. In the end, such policies and agrarian experiences left Indian farmers marginally incorporated and economically dependent.
People And Plants In Ancient Eastern North America
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Author : Paul E. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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People And Plants In Ancient Eastern North America written by Paul E. Minnis and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Wildlife On The Wind
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Author : Bruce L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Wildlife On The Wind written by Bruce L. Smith and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Nature categories.
In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of life and economic dependence on decimated buffalo. Tribal members subsisted on increasingly depleted numbers of other big game—deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlife heritage. Bruce Smith became the first wildlife biologist to work on the reservation. Wildlife on the Wind recounts how he helped Native Americans change the course of conservation for some of America's most charismatic wildlife.
Ethnobotany And Uses Of Native Plants In The Bosque By American Indian Tribes Of The Southwest
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Author : Tyler Pounds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-15
Ethnobotany And Uses Of Native Plants In The Bosque By American Indian Tribes Of The Southwest written by Tyler Pounds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-15 with Nature categories.
All Rights Reserved Copyright Registration Number / Date: TX0009300836 / 2023-07-27 Library of Congress Control Number: 2023911516 The First Book for Mr. Tyler Pounds "Integrated Human-Nature Relations". The "School of Integrated Human-Nature Relations" combines the fields of Anthropology, Wildlife Biology (Botany, Ecology, Zoology) into a cohesive integrated format. The school (and thus this book) delves into the direct links and relationships that humans have with nature. Exploring the direct links and relationships that humans have with nature is a critical first step on solving the worlds "biodiversity crisis". This book uses the fields of Ecological Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Integrated Biology to showcase biodiversity on Native American reservations as well as showcasing how Ethnographic Field Methods can be integrated and used for wildlife management through an "Ecosystem Service" lens. The showcasing of ecological data sets on Native American reservations is critical in proving to the world just how important and invaluable Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Systems are in conserving the worlds biodiversity. Integrating and "bridging of the sciences" will be crucial in solving the worlds biodiversity and global climate change crisis. We now stand in the "Anthropocene Epoch" of human caused ecological destruction. To value nature is to value one's own self and well-being.
People And Plants In Ancient Western North America
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Author : Paul E. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2004
People And Plants In Ancient Western North America written by Paul E. Minnis and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The environmental diversity of North America is astounding—from circumpolar tundra with a small number of plants more than a few centimeters tall to the lush semitropical forests of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean Basin. No less remarkable is the record of plant usage by the various indigenous peoples who have been living here for more than 12,000 years. For the vast majority of this time, their livelihood—food, shelter, fuel, and medicine—depended on their knowledge and use of the plants that surrounded them. The most comprehensive overview in more than half a century on the interconnectedness of people and plants, this book and its companion volume, People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, present the latest information on three major topics: the uses of native plants, the history of crops and their uses, and the impact of humans on their environment. They not only contribute to our understanding of the lives of prehistoric people but also serve as guides for designing sustainable living today.
People Plants Anc W Na Pb
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Author : MINNIS P
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2004-09-17
People Plants Anc W Na Pb written by MINNIS P and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-17 with Science categories.
"The environmental diversity of western North America is astounding: from the wind-scoured tundra of the high mountains to the seemingly desolate lowland deserts. No less remarkable is the record of plant usage by the various indigenous peoples who have been living there for more than twelve millennia. For the vast majority of this time, their livelihood, food, shelter, fuel, and medicine depended on their knowledge and use of the plants that surrounded them. The most comprehensive overview in more than half a century on the interconnectedness of people and plants, this book and its companion volume, People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, present the latest information on three major topics: the uses of native plants, the history of crops and their uses, and the impact of humans on their environment. They not only contribute to our understanding of the lives of prehistoric people but also serve as guides for designing sustainable living today."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.
Rewilding North America
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Author : Dave Foreman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-07
Rewilding North America written by Dave Foreman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07 with Nature categories.
In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution. Foreman begins by setting out the specific evidence that a mass extinction is happening and analyzes how humans are causing it. Adapting Aldo Leopold's idea of ecological wounds, he details human impacts on species survival in seven categories, including direct killing, habitat loss and fragmentation, exotic species, and climate change. Foreman describes recent discoveries in conservation biology that call for wildlands networks instead of isolated protected areas, and, reviewing the history of protected areas, shows how wildlands networks are a logical next step for the conservation movement. The final section describes specific approaches for designing such networks (based on the work of the Wildlands Project, an organization Foreman helped to found) and offers concrete and workable reforms for establishing them. The author closes with an inspiring and empowering call to action for scientists and activists alike. Rewilding North America offers both a vision and a strategy for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the North American continent, and is an essential guidebook for anyone concerned with the future of life on earth.
Who Owns Native Culture
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Author : Michael F. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Who Owns Native Culture written by Michael F. Brown and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Political Science categories.
"Documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a protected resource. Michael Brown takes readers into settings where native peoples defend what they consider to be their cultural property ... By focusing on the complexity of actual cases, Brown casts light on indigenous grievances in diverse fields ... He finds both genuine injustice and, among advocates for native peoples, a troubling tendency to mimic the privatizing logic of major corporations"--Jacket.
The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Northeast
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Author : Kathleen Joan Bragdon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Northeast written by Kathleen Joan Bragdon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
With a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, this book brings together internationally known experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss: how to determine conservation priorities in a scientific fashion, how to weigh the long-term, often hidden value of conservation against the more immediate value of land development, the need for education in areas of rapid population growth, and how lack of knowledge about biodiversity can impede conservation efforts. United in their belief that conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the contributing authors address the full scope of global biodiversity and its decline--the threatened marine life and extinction of many mammals in the modern era in relation to global patterns of development, and the implications of biodiversity loss for human health, agricultural productivity, and the economy. The Living Planet in Crisis is the result of a conference of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
