Indians: The First
Environmentalists?
Nature and History in
America
Hunter-gatherers
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Subarctic
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California
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Pacific Northwest
Hunter-gatherers & conservation
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Marginal and fragile ecologies
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Conservation methods
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Abundance and extinction
Fishing
Indian ecological management
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Animals and the supernatural
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Supernatural origins of beaver and buffalo
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Getting animal spirits to agree to their slaughter
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Fire as ecological management tool
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Followed spread of maize, except on Plains
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Ecological effects
Plains Indians
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How to kill moving game without horses
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Export economy
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Alibates Quarry
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Waste and extinction
Indian agriculture
Irrigation in Southwest: Hohokam
Rise and fall of the Anasazi