Biodiversity And Native America

Author : Paul E. Minnis,Wayne J. Elisens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0806133457

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Biodiversity and Native America by Paul E. Minnis,Wayne J. Elisens Pdf

Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816522596

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Enduring Seeds by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity while providing insights into traditional Native agricultural practices in the Americas. Gary Paul Nabhan here reveals the rich diversity of plants found in tropical forests and their contribution to modern crops, then tells how this diversity is being lost to agriculture and lumbering. He then relates "local parables" of Native American agriculture—from wild rice in the Great Lakes region to wild gourds in Florida—that convey the urgency of this situation and demonstrate the need for saving the seeds of endangered plants. Nabhan stresses the need for maintaining a wide gene pool, not only for the survival of these species but also for the preservation of genetic strains that can help scientists breed more resilient varieties of other plants. Enduring Seeds is a book that no one concerned with our environment can afford to ignore. It clearly shows us that, as agribusiness increasingly limits the food on our table, a richer harvest can be had by preserving ancient ways. This edition features a new foreword by Miguel Altieri, one of today's leading spokesmen for sustainable agriculture and the preservation of indigenous farming methods.

Author : Bruce A. Stein,Lynn S. Kutner,Jonathan S. Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198028963

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Precious Heritage by Bruce A. Stein,Lynn S. Kutner,Jonathan S. Adams Pdf

From the lush forests of Appalachia to the frozen tundra of Alaska, and from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest to the subtropical rainforests of Hawaii, the United States harbors a remarkable array of ecosystems. These ecosystems in turn sustain an exceptional variety of plant and animal life. For species such as salamanders and freshwater turtles, the United States ranks as the global center of diversity. Among the nation's other unique biological features are California's coast redwoods, the world's tallest trees, and Nevada's Devils Hole pupfish, which survives in a single ten-by-seventy-foot desert pool, the smallest range of any vertebrate animal. Precious Heritage draws together for the first time a quarter century of information on U.S. biodiversity developed by natural heritage programs from across the country. This richly illustrated volume not only documents those aspects of U.S. biodiversity that are particularly noteworthy, but also considers how our species and ecosystems are faring, what is threatening them, and what is needed to protect the nation's remaining natural inheritance. Above all, Precious Heritage is a celebration of the extraordinary biological diversity of the United States.

Author : Kristen J. Gremillion
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780932839589

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Food Production in Native North America by Kristen J. Gremillion Pdf

This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series provides a broad overview of the development of agriculture and other forms of resource management by the Native peoples of North America. Its geographical scope includes most of the continent’s temperate zone, but regions where agriculture took hold are emphasized. Temporally, this volume looks back as far as the first indigenous domesticates that emerged in the midcontinental region and follows the story into the era of European conquest.

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816502242

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People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America by Paul E. Minnis Pdf

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0816529124

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People and Plants in Ancient Western North America by Paul E. Minnis Pdf

The environmental diversity of North America is astounding—from circumpolar tundra with a small number of plants more than a few centimeters tall to the lush semitropical forests of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean Basin. No less remarkable is the record of plant usage by the various indigenous peoples who have been living here for more than 12,000 years. For the vast majority of this time, their livelihood—food, shelter, fuel, and medicine—depended on their knowledge and use of the plants that surrounded them. The most comprehensive overview in more than half a century on the interconnectedness of people and plants, this book and its companion volume, People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, present the latest information on three major topics: the uses of native plants, the history of crops and their uses, and the impact of humans on their environment. They not only contribute to our understanding of the lives of prehistoric people but also serve as guides for designing sustainable living today.

Author : David Rich Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195362664

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Neither Wolf Nor Dog by David Rich Lewis Pdf

During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural traditions reflected distinct subsistence adaptations to life in the western United States. Each experienced the full weight of federal agrarian policy yet responded differently, in culturally consistent ways, to subsistence change and the resulting social and environmental consequences. Attempts to establish successful agricultural economies ultimately failed as each group reproduced their own cultural values in a diminished and rapidly changing environment. In the end, such policies and agrarian experiences left Indian farmers marginally incorporated and economically dependent.

Author : Michael Eugene Harkin,David Rich Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780803205666

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Native Americans and the Environment by Michael Eugene Harkin,David Rich Lewis Pdf

Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia-as well as the first in which Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson worked together.

Author : Ronald L. Trosper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816546626

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Indigenous Economics by Ronald L. Trosper Pdf

What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among humans and the natural world creates flourishing social-ecological economies. Economist Ronald L. Trosper draws on examples from North and South America, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia to argue that Indigenous worldviews centering care and good relationships provide critical and sustainable economic models in a world under increasing pressure from biodiversity loss and climate change. He explains the structure of relational Indigenous economic theory, providing principles based on his own and others’ work with tribal nations and Indigenous communities. Trosper explains how sustainability is created at every level when relational Indigenous economic theory is applied—micro, meso, and macro. Good relationships support personal and community autonomy, replacing the individualism/collectivism dichotomy with relational leadership and entrepreneurship. Basing economies on relationships requires changing governance from the top-down approaches of nation-states and international corporations; instead, each community creates its own territorial relationships, creating plurinational relational states. This book offers an important alternative to classic economic theory. In Indigenous Economics, support for Indigenous communities’ development and Indigenous peoples’ well-being go hand-in-hand. Publication of this book is made possible in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science.

Author : Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521662703

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Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change by Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt Pdf

This book shows that Holocene human ecosystems are complex adaptive systems in which humans interacted with their environment in a nested series of spatial and temporal scales. Using panarchy theory, it integrates paleoecological and archaeological research from the Eastern Woodlands of North America providing a paradigm to help resolve long-standing disagreements between ecologists and archaeologists about the importance of prehistoric Native Americans as agents for ecological change. The authors present the concept of a panarchy of complex adaptive cycles as applied to the development of increasingly complex human ecosystems through time. They explore examples of ecological interactions at the level of gene, population, community, landscape and regional hierarchical scales, emphasizing the ecological pattern and process involving the development of human ecosystems. Finally, they offer a perspective on the implications of the legacy of Native Americans as agents of change for conservation and ecological restoration efforts today.

Author : Radu Cornel Guiaşu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789047426134

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Non-native Species and Their Role in the Environment by Radu Cornel Guiaşu Pdf

The role of non-native species in their new environments is one of the central issues in conservation biology and ecology today. This book presents a comprehensive evolutionary exploration of the complex and dynamic interactions between introduced species and native ones, and shows that non-native species can bring useful and important contributions to novel ecosystems. Based on a wide variety of examples and case studies, a strong case is made for a more positive and objective approach to non-native species and a greater appreciation of the valuable ecosystem services they provide.

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816502234

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People and plants in ancient western North America by Paul E. Minnis Pdf

Author : David Andrew Norton,Nick C. H. Reid
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780643103252

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Nature and Farming by David Andrew Norton,Nick C. H. Reid Pdf

Explains why it is important to sustain native plants & animals in agricultural landscapes, outlines issues in developing & implementing practical approaches to safeguard native biodiversity in rural areas. Considers ecological & agricultural issues that determine what native biodiversity occurs in farmland.--

Author : James Gordon Nelson,Lucy M. Sportza
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380840

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Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North America by James Gordon Nelson,Lucy M. Sportza Pdf

"Based on a workshop on Regional Approaches to Parks and Protected Areas in North America, held at Tijuana, Mexico, March 1999"--p. xv.

Author : Bruce L. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781457181139

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Wildlife on the Wind by Bruce L. Smith Pdf

In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of life and economic dependence on decimated buffalo. Tribal members subsisted on increasingly depleted numbers of other big game—deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlife heritage. Bruce Smith became the first wildlife biologist to work on the reservation. Wildlife on the Wind recounts how he helped Native Americans change the course of conservation for some of America's most charismatic wildlife.