The "Placing" of Identity in Nomadic Societies:

Aboriginal Landscapes of the Northwestern Plains of North America

by Michael C. Wilson

Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia

"Natural landscapes are appropriated, organized, and named by people, whose activities are localized to places and are thus transformed into cultural landscapes...Until recently, there had been few detailed studies of the cultural landscapes..."   

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