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Krech Discussion Questions
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When did the Pleistocene extinctions occur? Which species went extinct? What explains these extinctions? Why did they occur? What does Krech think? What do you think? How did the Hohokam make a living from nature? What did that land use have to do with their disappearance? What role did nature play in causing their demise? What role did disease
pathogens play in decimating the native population of New England, and the
rest of the How did Indians use fire to manipulate and change the environment? What short- and long-term impacts did that “fire ecology” have? Were the consequences good or bad? What do we mean by those terms in this case? How many bison were there on the Plains on the eve of contact? How do we know this? What explains their decline? How did the pressures on bison change over time? Why? Why did Indians change the way they hunted deer and beaver? What did Europeans have to do with these changes? What were the most important changes? How did these changes prompt other historical change? What functions does the concept of “ecological Indian” serve? To what degree does the image faithfully reflect North American Indians’ ideas and practices through time? |