Dances with myths. (truths about American Indians' environmental ethics)

Reason | February 1, 1997| | Copyright

Half-truths about American Indians' environmental ethic obscure the rational ways in which they have lived with and shaped the natural world.

Hollywood images and romantic environmentalism would have us see American Indians as so in harmony with nature they left no mark on it. A Sierra Club book about forestry claims, "For many thousands of years, most of the indigenous nations on this continent practiced a philosophy of protection first and use second of the forest." According to former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, "The Indians were, in truth, the pioneer ...

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