Rivers, Fish, and the People

Pei-Lin Yu is an ethnoarchaeologist who has worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and National Park Service. She is currently a professor at Boise State University, USA. She is the author of Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist and coeditor of The Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility and Lithics in the West.

"An engaging and enlightening read, presented with professional rigor."-Ronald M. Yoshiyama, University of California, Davis, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology "Outstanding. A solid, uniformly treated, set of case studies with a geographical, ecological, and cultural thread that ties them together, but with unique instances of technological, economic, and social adaptation to local conditions. An outstanding example of the diversity and complexity of human/nature interaction in a single region. This is a really important contribution." -Maria Nieves Zedeno, University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology "Environmental historians will benefit from the book's careful research that connects ethnography and oral histories to ecology and material culture, presents up-to-date information on hunter-gatherer societies, and illustrates how tribal knowledge could aid current management decisions and restoration efforts."-Environmental History "[Provides] a better understanding of the wide range of fishing strategies employed through deep time. These perspectives are a critical step in applying the lessons of the past to safeguard the future of western American rivers."-American Antiquity "A great contribution to the historical ecology literature. Yu's volume demands from its readers that they contemplate how the dynamic uses of past river ecosystems by first peoples can be applied to rapidly changing contemporary environments."-Ethnobiology Letters "Rivers, Fish, and the People provides a useful collection of case studies illustrating the various adaptive relationships that Indigenous peoples in the North American West crafted with rivers and fish."-Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies