Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness

Authors:Omer C. Stewart, Henry T. Lewis, Kat AndersonHenry
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: transient, wilderness, americans, native, fires, forgotten
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0806134232
ISBN-13: 9780806134239

Book Description:

A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in static harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained unchanged until European colonization. Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made a significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning.

In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart’s original research and insights, first presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today. Significant portions of Stewart’s text have not been available until now, and Lewis and Anderson set the anthropologist’s findings in the context of current knowledge about Native hunter-gathers and their uses of fire.


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