Swallowing wealth: Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices

Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 211-232

  Harkin, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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