Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian

Contents

Contents Foreword ix Judith Antell Preface xi Brian Hosmer Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis Part 1: Shepard Krech and His Critics 1. Beyond The Ecological Indian 3 Shepard Krech III 2. The Ecological Indian and the Politics of Representation Critiquing The Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide 32 Darren J. Ranco 3. Myths of the Ecological Whitemen Histories, Science, and Rights in North American–Native American Relations 52 Harvey A. Feit Part 2: (Over)hunting Large Game 4. Did the Ancestors of Native Americans Cause Animal Extinctions in Late-Pleistocene North America? And Does It Matter If They Did? 95 Robert L. Kelly and Mary M. Prasciunas 5. Rationality and Resource Use among Hunters Some Eskimo Examples 123 Ernest S. Burch Jr. 6. Wars over Buffalo Stories versus Stories on the Northern Plains 153 Dan Flores Part 3: Representations of Indians and Animals 7. Watch for Falling Bison The Buffalo Hunt as Museum Trope and Ecological Allegory 173 John Dorst 8. Ecological and Un-ecological Indians The (Non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the Buffalo Commons Literature 192 Sebastian F. Braun Part 4: Traditional Ecological Knowledge 9. Swallowing Wealth Northwest Coast Beliefs and Ecological Practices 211 Michael E. Harkin 10. Sustaining a Relationship Inquiry into the Emergence of a Logic of Engagement with Salmon among the Southern Tlingits 233 Stephen J. Langdon Part 5: Contemporary Resource Management Issues 11. 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 277 Larry Nesper and James H. Schlender 12. Skull Valley Goshutes and the Politics of Nuclear Waste Environment, Identity, and Sovereignty 304 David Rich Lewis Afterword 343 Shepard Krech III List of Contributors 355 Index 359 Illustrations Figure 10.1. Intertidal zonation and wooden-stake fish trap, Little Salt Lake 248 Figure 10.2. Major wooden-stake features (pavements), Little Salt Lake 250 Figure 10.3. Tlingit fish trap stake from Wrangell, Alaska 266 Tables Table 4.1. Extinct late-Pleistocene North American mammals 98 Table 10.1. Little Salt Lake fishing features 246 Table 10.2. Little Salt Lake fishing technologies 249 ...