Ecological Indian; Author: Krech III, Shepard (Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Krech III, Shepard (Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, USA)
Hardback; Book
318 pages
Published: October 1999
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
ISBN: 0393047555
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From a professor of anthropology comes a startling look at the historic truths and romantic falsehoods about Native Americans and their relationship to nature, before and after Europeans arrived in North America.The conservation of Native America and the fierce debate over its people's relationship to nature. A survey of North American environmental history to explore the relation between humans and nature before and after the arrival of Europeans. Providing historical and anthropological evidence, it shows Indians as sophisticated humans who changed the land and responded to its changing ecology.