..., and Michaelsen 1994; Milliken 1995; Sandos 1991, 1998, 2004). The ecological hypothesis is one of many explanations offered. Advocates of this hypothesis maintain that environmental push factors such as drought, depletion of native food sources by the grazing of livestock, and environmental changes induced...

..., III 1999 The Ecological Indian: Myth and History . New York: W. W. Norton. Book Reviews American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study. By Michael C. Coleman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii + 367 pp., acknowledgements, introduction...

... The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. By Shepard Krech III. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. 318 pp., preface, introduction, index. $27.95 cloth.) Alfred W. Crosby, University of Texas Every investigator...

...Paul E. Hoffman The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies . Edited by Thompson Victor D. and Waggoner James C. Jr. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . xiv + 232 pp., preface, acknowledgments, figures, tables, works cited, contributors...

...Stephen R. Hausmann Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 . By Adam R. Hodge ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . xv +335 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 hardcover...

...Joe Borsato [email protected] No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic . By Keith Pluymers . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 296 pp. $49.95 paperback.). Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 In No Wood...

...Dan Flores [email protected] Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains . By R. Grace Morgan ; foreword by James Daschuk ; afterword by Cristina Eisenberg . ( Regina, SK : University of Regina Press , 2020 . 334 pp., figures...

...Paul Nadasdy Recent debates over the stereotype of the “ecologically noble Indian” have helped illuminate some of the ambiguities and complexities that characterize the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. But, while scholars engaged in this debate have examined...

...Gillian Feeley-Harnik Conservationists in Madagascar emphasize the need to educate local farmers about proper land use, while often ignoring the ideas and practices of expatriate residents in past and present debates about Malagasy ecology. The premise of this article is that we need to study both...

... by Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho hunters. The reasons behind this trading locus, which was unique to the fur trade era of the western Great Plains, are examined in the context of indigenous instrumentality and ecological factors. Heretofore unexamined environmental and archaeological data combined...

... a wealth of information about Anishinaabe cultural and political priorities, their struggles to maintain control of land in specific locations, and their extensive ecological knowledge, opening rich interpretative doors for future research. Perhaps most important, the pictographs, in contrast to ever...

... that are experimenting with new community gardens and other innovative responses to rapid ecological, climatic, and socioeconomic change. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska: Food System Innovation and the Alaska Native Gardens of the 1930s through the 1970s Philip...

..., both materially and discursively, both in terms of the ecological networks that provide us with sustenance and the identities that define who we are as social, cultural, and historical beings. This article examines early contacts on the Northwest coast, using food as a lens on cultural...

... patterns: carrying capacity, which suggests that increasing village populations and environmental limits drove new settlements, and political ecology, which suggests that exogenous economic forces determined the timing and location of new settlements. The analysis indicates that villages rarely encountered...

..., it suggests that acknowledging indigenous environmental activism as a fundamentally political project challenges stereotypical images of ecological nobility and, concurrently, calls into question mainstream conceptions of a just modern society that has long since done away with colonialism. American Society...

..., ecological, astronomical, genealogical, and historical. Drawing on the notion of “topokinetic memory” described by neuroscientist Alain Berthoz (2000) and on ethnographic material collected during a journey on the Rio Urucauá, this analysis distinguishes between story maps as the practice...

... Saagiig claim to them demonstrates and enables the ongoing resilience of Michi Saagiig memory practices, political structures, and ecological relationships. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 treaties Ontario Crawford Purchase Mississauga...

... ecologically and economic-driven explanatory models, integrates history and indigenous perceptions of the environment as powerful instruments to record the people’s knowledge of the land and to assert self-determination. The emphasis is placed on people’s daily itineraries and cyclical practices...

.... This article draws on demographic and ecological information in examining the economic and political pressures that had developed in central Guerrero in the years leading up to the 1840s. I show that in the years leading up to the 1840s a settlement distribution had developed in the region that created...

...Lorenzo Brutti This article explains millenarism as a cultural response to a range of social, economic, and ecological changes that occurred during the past few centuries in Oksapmin society. The assumption is that Oksapmin cosmology has always been dynamic and self-innovating toward both...