| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Gettin' there -- On the reservation -- First elk -- Mountains and sky -- Stranded -- The way it was -- Younger kids -- On the same page -- Game code -- Upshot |
| Summary |
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 & mdash;deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlife |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Smith, Bruce L., 1948-
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Smith, Bruce L., 1948-
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Smith, Bruce L., 1948- |
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Shoshoni Indians -- Ethnobiology -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
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Arapaho Indians -- Ethnobiology -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
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Wildlife management -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
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Biology -- Fieldwork -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
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NATURE -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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Biology -- Fieldwork
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Wildlife management
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Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.)
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Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010024664 |
| ISBN |
9780874217926 |
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087421792X |
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1283078074 |
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9781283078078 |
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1457181134 |
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9781457181139 |
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9786613078070 |
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6613078077 |
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