For Native Americans, research that combines oral history, mnemonics, and physical evidence represen

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Oral histories and archaeological evidence
For Native Americans, research that combines
oral history, mnemonics, and physical evidence
represents a new approach to reconstructing the
past. In order to understand the cultural
meaning of the people, places, and events that
shaped their lives, we must not only read
history, but also listen to it. -- Patty Loew,
page 11
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Humanizing the landscape
12,000 year process in WI The story of the
Trickster Several types of activities
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William Gartner (p 332) When subsequent
chroniclers those who arrived after the spread
of disease and disruption of Native life scanned
the landscape, then emptied by these maladies,
they viewed it, incorrectly, as
natural. Perceptions of wilderness prompted
by Euro-American economic and territorial
ambitions, prejudices against Native American
culture?
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Humanizing the landscape
Fire Hunting and trapping Fishing Arboriculture Fo
raging Agriculture Mining Soils Built environment
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