ABSTRACT
How can we live sustainably on the North American continent? We know the answer to that question, however unsure we are of how to achieve it, since indigenous people lived sustainably for several thousand years on this continent largely in concert with each other and in balance with the ecosystems on which they depended. They did not always maintain that balance. When living in fragile environments, such as the Anazazi Indians, or when living in too dense a settlement, as in Cahokia, they brought on the collapse of their ecosystems and the dispersal of their communities.1 Yet, overall, indigenous people here knew what we have forgotten: How to live in such a way that the natural environment can sustain us and future generations.2
