A dam R. H odge . Ecology and Ethnogenesis

Where do people come from? In Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868, Adam R. Hodge reverse engineers an answer for the Eastern Shoshones, a Native American tribe based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming since 1868. Hodge traces the group’s origin back thousands of years to the Great Basin, where ancestral Numic-speaking peoples crafted balanced lives from an array of natural resources. Men and women hunted and fished; they harvested wild plants and nuts. They migrated and adapted, thrived and suffered, building enduring ties to environments throughout the region and beyond. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some groups of Numic-speakers expanded their historical practice of hunting bison on foot by adopting the horses accidentally reintroduced to the Great Plains by the Spanish in the Southwest. The horses pulled the Numic-speaking Comanches west and south, and some of their bison-hunting relative Shoshones...

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