Biodiversity and Native America

Paul E. Minnis, Professor of Anthroplogy at the University of Oklahoma, is the editor of Ethnobotany: A Reader and coeditor of Biodiversity and Native America.Wayne J. Elisens, Professor of Botany and curator of the Bebb Herbarium at the University of Oklahoma, is coeditor of Biodiversity and Native America.

While similar works tend to emphasize the ethnobiology of the tropics, here contributors explore the ingenious and changing record of adaptive and management strategies of indigenous North Americans. . . . This book is a must-read."" - Culture and Agriculture""The unescapable conclusion of . . . this volume is that the environment and landscape of North America are better described as 'managed' than 'wild' at the time of European arrival. . . . Biodiversity and Native America should be required reading for specialists in American Indians, American environmental history, and North American biology."" - Greg O'Brien, author of The Timeline of Native Americans