Native Americans And The Environment
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Native Americans And The Environment
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Author : Michael Eugene Harkin
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Native Americans And The Environment written by Michael Eugene Harkin and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Nature categories.
Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia-as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson worked together.
American Indian Environments
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Author : Christopher Vecsey
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1980-12-01
American Indian Environments written by Christopher Vecsey and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Reflecting a variety of disciplines, approaches, and viewpoints, this collection of ten essays by both Indians and non-Indians covers a wide range of historical periods, areas, and topics concerning the changes in Indian environmental experiences. Subjects include the role of the environment in religions; white practices of land use and the exploitation of energy resources on reservations; the historical background of sovereignty, its philosophy and legality; and the plight of various uprooted Indians and the resulting clashes between Indian groups themselves as they compete for scarce resources. From the Canadian Subarctic to Ontario's Grassy Narrows, from the Iroquois to the Navajo, American Indian Environments is an important contribution to understanding the Indians' attitude toward and dependence upon their environment and their continued struggles with non-Indians over it.
Ecocide Of Native America
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Author : Donald A. Grinde
language : en
Publisher: Clear Light Publishing
Release Date : 1995
Ecocide Of Native America written by Donald A. Grinde and has been published by Clear Light Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nature categories.
Looks at the continuing expropriation of Indian land and traditional subsistence rights, the destruction wrought by strip mining, the radioactive fallout of uranium mining, the contamination of water, and air and groundwater pollution that threatens livestock and human lives.
Ecological Indian
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Author : Shepard Krech III
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2000-10-03
Ecological Indian written by Shepard Krech III and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-03 with History categories.
"A good story and first-rate social science."—New York Times Book Review The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventional-wisdom overturner; he has a serious larger point to make. . . . Concepts like ecology, waste, preservation, and even the natural (as distinct from human) world are entirely anachronistic when applied to Indians in the days before the European settlement of North America." "Offers a more complex portrait of Native American peoples, one that rejects mythologies, even those that both European and Native Americans might wish to embrace."—Washington Post
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.
North American Indian Ecology
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Author : Johnson Donald Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
North American Indian Ecology written by Johnson Donald Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Science categories.
Environmental Clashes On Native American Land
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Author : Cynthia-Lou Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-20
Environmental Clashes On Native American Land written by Cynthia-Lou Coleman and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-20 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how the media frame environmental and scientific disputes faced by American Indian communities. Most people will never know what it is like to live on an Indian reservation in North America, or what it means to identify as an American Indian. However, when conflicts embroil Indigenous folk, as shown by the protests over a crude oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017, camera crews and reporters descend on “the rez” to cover the event. The focus of the book is how stories frame clashes in Indian Country surrounding environmental and scientific disputes, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, and the discovery of an ancient skeleton in Washington. The narratives told over social media and news programs often fail to capture the issues of key importance to Native Americans, such as sovereignty: the right to self- governance. The book offers insight into how the history of Indian-settler relations sets the stage for modern clashes, and examines American Indian knowledge systems, and how they take a back seat to mainstream approaches to science in discourse.
Nature And The Environment In Pre Columbian American Life
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Author : Stacy Kowtko
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2006-08-30
Nature And The Environment In Pre Columbian American Life written by Stacy Kowtko and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-30 with History categories.
Prehistoric North Americans lived on, in, and surrounded by nature. As a result, everything they were resulted from this co-existence. From interpersonal relations to supernatural beliefs, from housing size and function to the food they ate and clothing they wore, the life of Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans was intimately intertwined with the environment. What is known about these societies is often sketchy at best, having survived largely through archaeological remains and oral tradition. Scholars have tried to understand Native American history on its own terms, trying to understand who and what they were in reality - a complex, diverse multitude of populations that defined themselves entirely through what they saw, heard, and experienced everyday - their natural environment. This accessible resource provides an excellent introduction for those needing a first step to researching the daily lives of Native Americans in the centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
Ecocide Of Native America
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Author : Donald A. Grinde
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1998-02-01
Ecocide Of Native America written by Donald A. Grinde and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-01 with Nature categories.
This book is not only a work of history, it makes history.... We desperately need to hear this story if we are to save the earth, the sky, the water, the air -- save ourselves.... I thank Donald Grinde and Bruce Johansen for their eloquent and powerful contribution to our education. (Howard Zinn)A dense, hard-hitting well-documented work ... Ecocide of Native America offers a much needed option to European perspectives of history.... It is a valuable alternative textbook, if you can hold with its difficult truths. (New Mexican)The book includes the moving testimony of those who continue to experience the slow death of their lands, their means of subsistence, their communities, even as environmentalists look to Native American ecological precedents for solutions to our common global catastrophe.
American Indian Literature Environmental Justice And Ecocriticism
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Author : Joni Adamson
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2001
American Indian Literature Environmental Justice And Ecocriticism written by Joni Adamson 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 2001 with Social Science categories.
Although much contemporary American Indian literature examines the relationship between humans and the land, most Native authors do not set their work in the "pristine wilderness" celebrated by mainstream nature writers. Instead, they focus on settings such as reservations, open-pit mines, and contested borderlands. Drawing on her own teaching experience among Native Americans and on lessons learned from such recent scenes of confrontation as Chiapas and Black Mesa, Joni Adamson explores why what counts as "nature" is often very different for multicultural writers and activist groups than it is for mainstream environmentalists. This powerful book is one of the first to examine the intersections between literature and the environment from the perspective of the oppressions of race, class, gender, and nature, and the first to review American Indian literature from the standpoint of environmental justice and ecocriticism. By examining such texts as Sherman Alexie's short stories and Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Almanac of the Dead, Adamson contends that these works, in addition to being literary, are examples of ecological criticism that expand Euro-American concepts of nature and place. Adamson shows that when we begin exploring the differences that shape diverse cultural and literary representations of nature, we discover the challenge they present to mainstream American culture, environmentalism, and literature. By comparing the work of Native authors such as Simon Ortiz with that of environmental writers such as Edward Abbey, she reveals opportunities for more multicultural conceptions of nature and the environment. More than a work of literary criticism, this is a book about the search to find ways to understand our cultural and historical differences and similarities in order to arrive at a better agreement of what the human role in nature is and should be. It exposes the blind spots in early ecocriticism and shows the possibilities for building common groundÑ a middle placeÑ where writers, scholars, teachers, and environmentalists might come together to work for social and environmental change.