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Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness

Name: Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness
ISBN: 9780806180588

Omer C. Stewart, Kat Anderson

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A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in stataic harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities & associated animal species through varied & localized habitat burning.

In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis & M. Kat Anderson present Stewartʼs original research & insights, presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today. Significant portions of Stewartʼs text have not been available until now, & Lewis & Anderson set Stewartʼs findings in the context of current knowledge about Native hunter-gathers & their uses of fire. This volume shows that for thousands of years, the North American landscape has been regularly shaped and renewed by the land & fire management practices of North American Indians.