The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos

Author/Contributor(s):	White, Richard
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
Date:	08/01/1988
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Richard White's study of the collapse into `dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems. ... A very sophisticated study, a `best read' in Indian history.-American Historical Review.