Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian Book

Foreword   Judith Antell     ix
Preface   Brian Hosmer     xi
Acknowledgments     xvii
Introduction   Michael E. Harkin   David Rich Lewis     xix
Shepard Krech and His Critics
Beyond The Ecological Indian   Shepard Krech III     3
The Ecological Indian and the Politics of Representation: Critiquing The Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide   Darren J. Ranco     32
Myths of the Ecological Whitemen: Histories, Science, and Rights in North American-Native American Relations   Haruey A. Feit     52
(Over)hunting Large Game
Did the Ancestors of Native Americans Cause Animal Extinctions in Late-Pleistocene North America?: And Does It Matter If They Did?   Robert L. Kelly   Mary M. Prasciunas     95
Rationality and Resource Use among Hunters: Some Eskimo Examples   Ernest S. Burch Jr.     123
Wars over Buffalo: Stories versus Stories on the Northern Plains   Dan Flores     153
Representations of Indians and Animals
Watch for Falling Bison: The Buffalo Hunt as Museum Trope and Ecological Allegory   John Dorst     173
Ecological and Un-ecological Indians: The (Non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the Buffalo Commons Literature   Sebastian F. Braun     192
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Swallowing Wealth: Northwest Coast Beliefs and Ecological Practices   Michael E. Harkin     211
Sustaining a Relationship: Inquiry into the Emergence of a Logic of Engagement with Salmon among the Southern Tlingits   Stephen J. Langdon     233
Contemporary Resource Management Issues
The Politics of Cultural Revitalization and Intertribal Resource Management: The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota   Larry Nesper   James H. Schlender     277
Skull Valley Goshutes and the Politics of Nuclear Waste: Environment, Identity, and Sovereignty   Dauid Rich Lewis     304
Afterword   Shepard Krech III     343
List of Contributors     355
Index     359