This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment.
- Provides both historical background and an analysis of key debates and theories
- Based on tried and tested classroom teaching material
- Uses the idea of environmental discourses to explain human-environmental relationships
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Native Americans and the Environment Introduction.
A Spider's Web (1961). Black Elk.
Ties That Bind (1990). Annie L. Booth and Harvey M. Jacobs.
How Can One Sell the Air?: A Manifesto for the Earth (ca. 1855). Chief Seattle.
The Cycle of Life. (1990) Audrey Shenandoah.
An Iroquois Perspective (1980). Oren Lyons.
2. Colonial Encounters.
Introduction.
A Certaine Indian (1621). William Bradford.
The Indians Grew Very Inquisitive (1647). John Winthrop.
Before They Got Thick (ca. early nineteenth century). Percy Bigmouth.
Give Us Good Goods (1743). Anonymous.
The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 (1992). William M. Denevan.
The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (1975). Francis Jennings.
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983). William Cronon.
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972). Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
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