Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300226164
- eISBN:
- 9780300231670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300226164.003.0008
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Nature
This chapter explores the historical relationship between Indigenous Americans and wolves illustrated through the stories of Indigenous peoples of North America, especially on the Great Plains and ...
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This chapter explores the historical relationship between Indigenous Americans and wolves illustrated through the stories of Indigenous peoples of North America, especially on the Great Plains and the Intermountain West. Tribal accounts have not been previously employed in scholarly examinations of the origins of “dogs” or studies of domestication. All the Plains tribes examined closely (Cheyenne, Lakota, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Shoshone) have stories characterizing wolves as guides, protectors, or entities that directly taught or showed humans how to hunt, creating reciprocal relationships in which each species provided food for the other or shared food. Indeed, evidence from tribes suggests a coevolutionary reciprocal relationship between Homo sapiens and American Canis lupus that existed until at least the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter explores the historical relationship between Indigenous Americans and wolves illustrated through the stories of Indigenous peoples of North America, especially on the Great Plains and the Intermountain West. Tribal accounts have not been previously employed in scholarly examinations of the origins of “dogs” or studies of domestication. All the Plains tribes examined closely (Cheyenne, Lakota, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Shoshone) have stories characterizing wolves as guides, protectors, or entities that directly taught or showed humans how to hunt, creating reciprocal relationships in which each species provided food for the other or shared food. Indeed, evidence from tribes suggests a coevolutionary reciprocal relationship between Homo sapiens and American Canis lupus that existed until at least the nineteenth century.
Daniel B. Botkin
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195168297
- eISBN:
- 9780199790050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195168297.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter discusses the importance of Native Americans to the success of the expedition, as well as the role of Native Americans in shaping the American landscape and therefore in affecting ...
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This chapter discusses the importance of Native Americans to the success of the expedition, as well as the role of Native Americans in shaping the American landscape and therefore in affecting nature. Topics covered include contact with the Shoshones, wilderness, and technology; and impact of Native Americans on the landscape by their use of three powerful technologies: fire, the ability to work wood into useful objects, and the bow and arrow.Less
This chapter discusses the importance of Native Americans to the success of the expedition, as well as the role of Native Americans in shaping the American landscape and therefore in affecting nature. Topics covered include contact with the Shoshones, wilderness, and technology; and impact of Native Americans on the landscape by their use of three powerful technologies: fire, the ability to work wood into useful objects, and the bow and arrow.
