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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the life and work of White and reflects on the major themes in his The Roots of Dependency. White's book essentially discusses the subsistence, environment and social change among Native American tribes in his work The Roots of Dependency. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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a historian well versed in Indian politics, the environment and social activity (Cronon and White 19). Whites perspective as a Native American historian, social theorist and activist came from his
West Coast education and his desire to learn more about the fundamental tribal units and Native American communities through out the nation. White wrote his doctoral dissertation at the
University of Washington on the environmental history of Island County, Washington, demonstrated his ability to evaluate the impacts of social change on land use and the environment. His dissertation
became his first book, Land Use, Environment, and Social Change, and earned White a Forest History Society award for the best book published in 1979-1980 (Cronon and White 20).
Whites second book, The Roots of Dependency, provides an environmental history of three fundamental Native American tribes: the Choctaws of the Southeast, the Pawnees of the Great Plains,
and the Navajos of the Southwest (Cronon and White 20). In this work, White evaluates the gradual transformation of tribal structures that ultimately has resulted in economic dependency of
the Native Americans on the now-dominant white culture (Cronon and White 20). White takes a concerted look at the transformation of three Indian communities and the historical,
social, economic and military elements that devised their change from central, autonomous and self-sufficient communities to integrated and dependent tribes based on governmentally directed reservations. White contends that while
it was ultimately military inferiority that resulted in the evolution of their status over time, that this describes the way in which change took place, but does not describe the
reason why change took place (White xv). White goes on to argue that market relations, the development of imperial goals, and the desire to incorporate religious, social and cultural
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