Wildlife on the wind : a field biologist's journey and an Indian reservation's renewal / Bruce L. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1948- Smith.

Contributor:

Bruce L..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Bruce L., 1948-.

Smith, Bruce L.

Shoshoni Indians--Ethnobiology--Wyoming--Wind River Indian Reservation.

Shoshoni Indians.

Arapaho Indians--Ethnobiology--Wyoming--Wind River Indian Reservation.

Arapaho Indians.

Wildlife management--Wyoming--Wind River Indian Reservation.

Wildlife management.

Biology--Fieldwork--Wyoming--Wind River Indian Reservation.

Biology.

Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of life and economic dependence on decimated buffalo. Tribal members subsisted on increasingly depleted numbers of other big game-deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlif

Contents:

Introduction

Gettin' there

On the reservation

First elk

Mountains and sky

Stranded

The way it was

Younger kids

On the same page

Game code

Upshot.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613078070

9781457181139

1457181134

9781283078078

1283078074

9780874217926

087421792X

OCLC:

699513592