The roots of dependency : subsistence, environment, and social change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos / Richard White.
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TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1988, c1983.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xix, 433 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0803297246
- 9780803297241
- Choctaw Indians -- Economic conditions
- Choctaw Indians -- Social conditions
- Pawnee Indians -- Economic conditions
- Pawnee Indians -- Social conditions
- Navajo Indians -- Economic conditions
- Navajo Indians -- Social conditions
- Indians of North America -- Economic conditions
- Indians of North America -- Social conditions
- Human ecology -- United States
- Subsistence economy -- United States
- E99.C8 W6 1988
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-417) and index.
The Choctaw landscape -- Choctaw subsistence -- The evolution of the Choctaw play-off system -- Liquor and deerskins: consequences of the market economy -- The collapse of the traditional economy -- The Pawnees -- Natural and cultural order -- Social change and environmental change -- The Pawnee decline -- The Navajos -- Navajo culture and economy -- Southwestern development and Navajo underdevelopment -- The Navajos become dependent.