Author: George W. Arthur
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This study uses archaeological, ethnohistorical and ecological data in an effort to understand the nature of early historic communal bison hunting among the aboriginal groups of the northern Plains.
Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Communal Bison Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
Author: George W. Arthur
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This study uses archaeological, ethnohistorical and ecological data in an effort to understand the nature of early historic communal bison hunting among the aboriginal groups of the northern Plains.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This study uses archaeological, ethnohistorical and ecological data in an effort to understand the nature of early historic communal bison hunting among the aboriginal groups of the northern Plains.
An Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Communal Bison Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
An Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Communal Bison Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
Author: George W. Arthur
Publisher: 1974.
ISBN:
Category : American bison
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Doctoral thesis in examining the ethno-historical reconstruction of the hunting activities of the northern Plains tribes (Blackfoot, Plains Cree, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine) in relationship to the annual cycle of the bison in the plains prairie grassland.
Publisher: 1974.
ISBN:
Category : American bison
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Doctoral thesis in examining the ethno-historical reconstruction of the hunting activities of the northern Plains tribes (Blackfoot, Plains Cree, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine) in relationship to the annual cycle of the bison in the plains prairie grassland.
Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Communal Bison Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
INTRODUCTION TO THHE ECOLOGY OF EARLY HISTORIC COMMUNAL BISON HUNTING AMONG THE NORTHERN PLAINS INDIANS.
An Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Communal Bison Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
An introduction to the ecology of early historic communal bison hunting amont the northern Plains Indians
An Introduction to the Ecology of Early Historic Hunting Among the Northern Plains Indians
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
Author: Geoff Cunfer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison’s demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and Native American perspectives. This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century bison reached a “tipping point” as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison’s demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and Native American perspectives. This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century bison reached a “tipping point” as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.
The Destruction of the Bison
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107717477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Destruction of the Bison, first published in 2000, explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures these hunters nearly extinguished the bison. In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife which first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107717477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Destruction of the Bison, first published in 2000, explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures these hunters nearly extinguished the bison. In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife which first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation.