Paul E. Minnis, Professor of Anthroplogy at the
University of Oklahoma, is the editor of Ethnobotany: A Reader and
coeditor of Biodiversity and Native America.
Wayne J. Elisens, Professor of Botany and curator
of the Bebb Herbarium at the University of Oklahoma, is coeditor of
Biodiversity and Native America.
While similar works tend to emphasize the ethnobiology of the
tropics, here contributors explore the ingenious and changing
record of adaptive and management strategies of indigenous North
Americans. . . . This book is a must-read."" -
Culture and Agriculture
""The unescapable conclusion of . . . this volume is that
the environment and landscape of North America are better described
as 'managed' than 'wild' at the time of European
arrival. . . . Biodiversity and Native America
should be required reading for specialists in American Indians,
American environmental history, and North American biology."" -
Greg O'Brien, author of The Timeline of Native Americans
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