Native Americans and the Environment: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Issues
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
American Indian Quarterly
Volume
19
Issue
3
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date
1995
First Page
423
Last Page
450
Abstract
Native Americans have long had an immediate relationship with their physical environments. At contact most lived in relatively small units close to the earth, cognizant of its rhythms and resources. They defined themselves by the land, by the sacred places that bounded and shaped their world. They recognized a unity in their physical and spiritual universes, the union of natural and supernatural. Their origin cycles, oral traditions, and cosmologies connected them with all animate and inanimate beings, past and present.
Recommended Citation
“Native Americans and the Environment: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Issues,” American Indian Quarterly, 19 no.3 (Summer 1995): 423-450.
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Comments
Originally published by the University of Nebraska Press. Publisher's PDF and article fulltext available through remote link via JSTOR. This article appeared in American Indian Quarterly.
Note: This publication was reprinted in - Canyons, Cultures and Environmental Change: An Introduction to the Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau.