(Read download) Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)
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| #835089 in Books | Shepard Krech III | 2009-03-15 | 2009-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x1.11 x8.00l,3.22 | File Name: 0820328154 | 264 pages | Spirits of the Air Birds and American Indians in the South
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A well-researched look at an Interesting topic|By SGM|This book of "ethno-ornithology" is an interesting investigation of the connection between Indians and birds in the American South.
The author shows how Native Americans used birds for practical reasons, including food and many different uses of feathers. But they also had an association with birds beyond the uti|||Shepard Krech's insightful research into historical sources and his deep understanding of birds combine to entrance the reader with scientific insights, Native knowledge, and marvelous descriptions of the American South. This book brings a fresh and fascinat
Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made tools and weapons from their beaks, bones, and talons. More significant to Shepard Krech III, Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian powers in ceremon...
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