Description: Neither Wolf Nor DogAmerican Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change Author(s): David Rich Lewis Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780195117943, 978-0195117943 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Subject Area: Regional History
Item Height: 234mm
Item Width: 155mm
Author: David Rich Lewis
Publication Name: Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 370g
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
