Native Americans understood their place in the natural world as defined by a creation myth.
Native Americans understood their place in the natural world as defined by a creation myth. Europeans too operated from a creation myth, one rooted in the Judeo-Christian scriptural tradition.
Using the notion of a creation myth as a starting point, how did Native Americans and Europeans each view the land before them?
How did their mindset shape the way they chose to interact with the land?
What were the consequences of the shift from a dominant Native interaction with the landscape to a dominant European interaction with the scene?
Native Americans understood their place in the natural world as defined by a creation myth. Europeans operated from a creation myth, from the Judeo-Christian scriptural tradition.
Using the notion of a creation myth as a starting point, how did Native Americans and Europeans each view the land before them?
How did their mindset shape the way they chose to interact with the land?
What were the consequences of the shift from a dominant Native interaction with the landscape to a dominant European interaction with the scene?
All has to do with environmental history