Wildlife on the Wind: A Field Biologist's Journey and an Indian Reservation's Renewal

by Bruce L. Smith and Bruce L. Smith

Book Overview

In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of life and economic dependence on decimated buffalo. Tribal members subsisted on increasingly depleted numbers of other big game--deer, elk, moose,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874217911
• ISBN13: 9780874217919
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 19 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher