Reviewed by Susan C. Ryan | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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*Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian.* Edited by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxiv + 367 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (paper).
Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian is a reaction to Shepard Krech's The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York, 1999). The publication of Krech's book provoked lengthy discourse—both positive and negative—about the extent to which Native Americans act as ecologists, conservationists, and protectors of natural resources. A portion of that discourse is represented in this book.	1
This edited volume contains twelve chapters on topics ranging from Late Pleistocene animal extinctions to nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute reservation. Most of the chapters address the historic use of animal and fish resources, primarily buffalo, beaver, caribou, and salmon. Two chapters near the end deal with contemporary resource management issues.	2
Native Americans and the Environment provides a modern understanding of the relationships between Native Americans and environmental resources and the cultural identities that emerge from interacting with those resources. Additionally, this book provides a balanced perspective on the history of resource use and the social and political pressures that affected resource use in the past and continue to affect use in the present.	. . .

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