[This is from a Reason review of Krech's Ecological Indian by Terry Anderson <http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1568/10_31/59580160/p2/article.jhtml? term=>. Thanks to MPug for pointing this out.]
For instance, my own research shows at Southeastern and Southwestern Indians had property rights in land that encouraged agricultural productivity, and that California Indians had property rights to pinon forests that encouraged good stewardship. Similar research by law professor Bruce Johnsen of George Mason University shows that clan fishing rights to salmon streams in the Pacific Northwest led to selective harvesting that, in turn, allowed larger fish to pass upstream to spawn--a property rights system that explains why some streams in the Pacific Northwest have larger salmon to this day.
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Um, James Buchanan and clan have set up shop at GMU and are notorious for tying history to their Procrustean property rights bed -- I mean paradigm. Can you say projection? :->
Ian