Under prairie skies : the plants and native peoples of the Northern Plains /

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"In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question: What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the Ice Age, plants played important roles as Native peoples learned which were valuable foods, whi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shay, C. Thomas (Creighton Thomas) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany > Great Plains.
Ethnobotany > Great Plains.
Human ecology > Great Plains.
Écologie humaine > Grandes Plaines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany
Human ecology
Ethnobotany
Great Plains
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Wide Vistas, Azure Skies
  • Chapter 1 Sculpting the Land
  • Chapter 2 Land of the Restless Wind
  • Chapter 3 The Land Is Sacred
  • Chapter 4 Life Among the Ancient Archives
  • Chapter 5 From Gathering to Growing
  • Chapter 6 Nature's Bounty
  • Chapter 7 Medicinal and Mystical Plants
  • Chapter 8 From Tools to Toys
  • Epilogue Under Autumn Skies
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index.

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