Ecology and ethnogenesis an environmental history of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 / Adam R. Hodge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodge, Adam R., author.

Series:

New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.

New visions in Native American and indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Wyoming--Wind River Basin--History.

Human ecology.

Shoshoni Indians--Wyoming--Wind River Basin--History.

Shoshoni Indians.

Shoshoni Indians--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society, [2019]

Summary:

In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence. He explores the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and gender history to illuminate the historic roots of the Eastern Shoshone bands that inhabitedthe intermountain West during the nineteenth century. Hodge presents an impressive longue durée narrative of Eastern Shoshone history from roughly 1000 CE to 1868, analyzing the major developments that influenced Shoshone culture and identity. Geographically spanning the Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Columbia Plateau, and Great Plains regions, Ecology and Ethnogenesis engages environmental history to explore the synergistic relationship between the subsistence methods of indigenous people and the lands that they inhabited prior to the reservation era. In examining that history, Hodge treats Shoshones, other Native peoples, and Euroamericans as agents who, through their use of the environment, were major components of much broader ecosystems. The story of the Eastern Shoshones over eight hundred years is an epic story of ecological transformation, human agency, and cultural adaptation. Ecology and Ethnogenesis is a major contribution to environmental history, ethnohistory, and Native American history. It explores Eastern Shoshone ethnogenesis based on interdisciplinary research in history, archaeology, anthropology, andthe natural sciences in devoting more attention to the dynamic and often traumatic history of "precontact" Native America and to how the deeper past profoundly influenced the "postcontact" era.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Origins

2. Life in the Great Basin, 1000-1500

3. Beyond the basin, 1500-1690

4. The equestrian revolution, 1690-1780

5. Epidemics, enemies, and explorers, 1780-1806

6. A tale of two fur trades, 1806-1840

7. Dispossession, 1840-1868

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496214416

1496214412

9781496214430

1496214439

OCLC:

1083763244