Historical Society) thatcontains another selec tion of readings treatingthe area before it was Portland. It includes a fascinatingsetof seventy images that serve as a visual reflection on the readings. The index to the book is found on theCD, a poor decision because itphysically separates itfrom the actual book, making its use somewhat difficult.Included also isa setof studyquestions foreach selection thatcould be quite helpful to teachers. Study questions and pictures excepted, theCD reflects what might be a slightflawinReading Portland. Ittriestobe all things to all readers and splits at the seams a bit, as the flurry of typos in theOates piece and the mispaginated table of contents for the pre-Portland section suggest. Ambition aside, any literate person who loves Portland will enjoy and profitfrom the readings in thisbook. Reading Portland is an investigationof thenature of a place, an induc tiveexploration intothecharacterof a citydone with an instrumentcalled prose.Any Portlander who loves thiscityshouldhaveReading Portland on his or her shelf inorder to read and reread tales of the tribe that livesat the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Tim Barnes Portland Community College NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN by Michael E.Harkin andDavid Rich Lewis University ofNebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007.Maps, notes, index. 367 pages. $24.95 paper. The editors conceived Native Americans and theEnvironment as a forum to present recent scholarship on tribal ecology and as a critique of Shepard Krech's The Ecological Indian (1999). The irony is thatKrech spearheaded a similar response toCalvinMartin's Keepers ofthe Game (1978), titled Indians, Animals, and theFur Trade:A Critique of Keepers of theGame. Now Krech's tribal land use study isunder scrutiny as Native Americans and theEnvironment's authors evaluate his interpretations of the sustainability of indigenous appropriation strategies.For continuity,theeditors employed a three-part ecological analysis: "ecology one" states all cultures have relations with their physical environment, "ecology two" focuses on tribal resource sustainabilitypractices, and "ecology three" is environmental politics. InPart 1, Krech's responses to reviewsofThe Ecological Indian are printed, and then critics reply.Darren J. Raneo argues thatKrech fails to expand our understanding of tribal landuse practices or of the importance of tribal stand ingat environmental negotiations. Harvey Feit refutes Krech's nineteenth century sub-arctic trap-line thesis, inwhich he concludes that tribesmen learned conservation fromwhites. Instead,Feit argues, tribaltrappersunderstood therelationshipbetween trapping intensity and beaver populations because of the complex relationship between Hudson's Bay Company traders, tribal trappers, and beaver numbers. InPart 2,"(Over)hunting LargeGame," Rob ertL. Kelly andMary M. Prasciunas conclude that late-Pleistocene climate change destroyed megafauna and that hunters only assisted in the unstoppable event.As a result,Kelly and Prasciunas conclude, indigenous hunterswere not responsible forthe mammoth's extinction. Ernest S. Burch, Jr.describes Inuitmaking rational decisions based on animal numbers and premised on social transactions.Hunting isa social transaction of give and takebetween thehunters and thenon-human persons they hunt,which negates conservationist or exploit ative as proper adjectives for theiractions. He defines over-kill as takingmore than needed and over-harvest as taking at a rate that jeop ardizes specie's survival. Ignoring rationality, Dan Flores declares that climate, intertribal wars, and tribalmarket hunting significantly reduced northernbison populations before the hide hunters' finale. Sadly, Flores fails to sub stantiate any of his arguments. If materialism Reviews 499 drove tribes towar, for example, war must also have diverted tribal attention from resource procurement, thereby reducing pressure on bison. He argues for"ecology two," writing on "ecological politics," but fails tomention that the 1877Black Hills Agreement ended Lakota off-reservationhunts and opened thenorthern killing fields towhites. JohnDorst opens Part 3, "Representations of Indians andAnimals," by comparing Krech's work to theDraper Museum bison exhibit. Both avoid critical inquiry concerning tribal bison relations. Sebastian F. Baum reviews recent literature on twenty-first-century bison commons despite contemporary tribal bison projects' focus on environmental politics, which are counter tomany tribalgoals. InPart 4, "Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)," Michael Harkin explores Northwest Coast salmon fishing.He concludes thattribal relations to fish included ecologies one and two,but not threebecause of feastand famine patterns based on fish availability. Examining Tlingit salmon fishing, Stephen J.Langdon discovered that only ecology one...