Native American Use Of Fire
In addition to simple cooking, Pre-Columbian Native Americans used fire in many and significant ways, ranging from protecting an area from fire to landscape-altering clearing of prairie.
Read more about Native American Use Of Fire: Human-shaped Landscape, Role of Fire By Natives, Arrival of The Europeans, Settlers and The Rich Prairies, Reasons For Burning, See Also, Further Reading
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