| Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lewis, David Rich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195117948 ISBN-13: 9780195117943 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: The experiences of three Native American groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Author David Rich Lewis shows how each group 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. Illustrations. Maps. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 978.004 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.98" W x 9.08" (0.89 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |