Considering Canada and the US from the early 19th century into the early twentieth century, please write an essay explaining comparing the accounts of Indigenous environmental history and Indigenous Peoples offered by Gilio-Whitaker’s As Long as the Grass Grows, Forkey’s Canadians and the Natural Environment, and Steinberg’s Down to Earth. How do these respective sources represent that history in different ways?

Using assigned readings, please produce a short essay that addresses the following:

Considering Canada and the US from the early 19th century into the early twentieth century, please write an essay explaining comparing the accounts of Indigenous environmental history and Indigenous Peoples offered by Gilio-Whitaker’s As Long as the Grass Grows, Forkey’s Canadians and the Natural Environment, and Steinberg’s Down to Earth. How do these respective sources represent that history in different ways? What events, trends, or people do they focus on? Why so and to what effect?

In marshalling evidence, you must include examples from all three assigned books, drawing from the key topics listed below.

Key Topics from previous units to discuss:
– ecological imperialism
– commodification / commoditization
– sustainability
– human dominion over nature
– extinction