Forgotten Fires
Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness
by Omer Call Stewart
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"A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static 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 and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning.
In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart's original research and insights, presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today."--BOOK JACKET.
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Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness
November 2002, University of Oklahoma Press
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0806134232 9780806134239
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"FIRES WARMED HEARTHS, heightened the palatability of meats and vegetables, aided nighttime fishing, hollowed out tree trunks for making dugout canoes, felled mighty oaks for earth lodge construction, and kept predators at bay."
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