Rethinking Genocide in North America

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Smithers
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
Settler Societies

This article explores the concept of genocide in North America. Colonial North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries constituted an ever growing number of racially and ethnically heterogeneous sites of trade, exploration, and settlement. As Europeans ventured westward into the North American wilderness, territorial expansion, changing land-use patterns, new economic networks, and different systems of coerced labour all motivated settlers to think and act with different colonial motives that contributed to a sense of instability and flux in settler communities. What bound Europeans together, and provided the ideological and political basis for ordering settler societies, was an increasingly explicit racialized anxiety and disgust for Native Americans. The settlers' sense of disgust was important to the genocidal intentions behind different forms of colonial violence.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
David K. Thulman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
North America ◽  
Unknown Function ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
The Face

Today, research into Early Florida (circa 15,000–9,000 cal B.P.) is blossoming and entering an exciting phase that has the potential to reveal much about early Floridians in particular, and wider Paleoindian and Early Archaic scholarship in general. Whereas the rest of North American Paleoindian and Early Archaic archaeology is limited almost exclusively to the analysis of site distributions and stone tools, Florida has produced an embarrassment of riches in the form of Paleoindian-age organic tools, including ivory points or shafts, ivory harpoon points, mastodon patella anvil, horse tibia tool handle, and several modified megafauna bones of unknown function. Perhaps more than any other area of North America, Florida provides the opportunity for extraordinary preservation of organic Paleoindian and Early Archaic material from submerged sites in its fresh and coastal waters. However, challenges remain in refining Florida’s early chronology, typology, land-use patterns, offshore survey techniques, and synthetic regional studies, and in preserving terrestrial sites in the face of tremendous development pressures and a deteriorating relationship with private collectors.

scholarly journals Watershed Prioritization of Kaeng Lawa Sub-Watershed, Khon Kaen Province Using the Morphometric and Land-Use Analysis: A Case Study of Heavy Flooding Caused by Tropical Storm Podul

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1570
Author(s):  
Katawut Waiyasusri ◽  
Srilert Chotpantarat
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Tropical Storm ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
Khon Kaen ◽  
Watershed Characteristic ◽  
Area Expansion

During 29–31 September 2019, tropical storm Podul moved into the Kaeng Lawa sub-watershed (KLs), the upstream area of the Chi watershed, causing the worst flooding in 40 years. This study was carried out to analyze the watershed characteristic (WC) variables and prioritize the risks of land-use patterns in KLs, Khon Kaen Province, using a watershed delineation approach. As a result of this study, of the 11 sub-watersheds in the Kaeng Lawa watershed, only KL03 and KL04 were deemed medium priority within their drainage and storage capacity systems. KL01, in the upstream sub-watershed, displayed very low priority. The pattern of land-use that appeared most in KL01 sub-watershed was deforestation, where the upper forest area appeared to show a 63% decrease from 2002 to 2017. The decreased forest area was replaced with agricultural area, for crops such as sugarcane and para-rubber, and fruit farms. Moreover, increases in urban area expansion were found in the downstream area in the north of KLs. The findings of this study reveal that severe flooding in this area was caused not only by tropical storm Podul, but also by the low prioritization of watershed characteristics and patterns of land-use that resulted in decreasing forested area in this watershed area. Consequently, these factors have influenced watershed storage and caused an accumulation of water volume, which regularly results in floods. Thus, flood mitigation should be implemented urgently, in the very low priority areas of the study area first.

scholarly journals Antiquities of the Copper Region of the North American Lakes

1858 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Daniel Wilson ◽  
Robert Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
North American ◽  
American History ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Copper Deposits ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
The North

The author, having visited North America, describes the copper deposits found on the shores of the Great Lakes and the techniques used by the native peoples of these regions to work this metal into tools and weaponry. He also discusses the discovery of tropical conch shells in this area and the burial practices of some of the native peoples. It is noted that the native Americans hammered the copper into shape while it was cold as they did not use smelting. He concludes by contrasting the geographical factors that he believes affected European and North American history and making some generalisations about the racial characteristics of European and native American peoples.

scholarly journals L’évolution récente de l’utilisation du sol sur la rive nord du Saint-Laurent entre Québec et Montréal

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Peter B. Clibbon ◽  
Jacques Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Specialty Crops ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
The North ◽  
Saint Lawrence River ◽  
The Face

In recent years, the face of much of rural Québec bas undergone a series of important transformations : vast areas of marginal farmland have either been abandoned or reforested ; large tracts of cleared land in the Saint Lawrence lowlands have been converted from general farming to specialty crops ; several of these areas of specialty crops are now being swallowed up by urban expansion ; the Laurentide hills and large sections of the Eastern Townships area are rapidly being transformed into sprawling tourist playgrounds. With the aid of 1964 air photos and 1965 land use data the authors record and briefly discuss some of the more striking trends in the evolution of rural land use patterns in the area between Montréal and Québec City, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River.

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