Ecological Indian

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Ecological Indian is written by Shepard Krech and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393321002 (ISBN 10) and 9780393321005 (ISBN 13).

Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR