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“North American Indians’ Cultures and Gary Snyder’s Viewpoint of Region and Animals.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.4(2010): 71-91. The goal of this paper is to examine how Gary Snyder searches for ecological dwelling on Turtle Island, a new name for the North American continent in order to protect nature against environment pollution and ecological disruption. Since 1969 when he returned to California, he has pursued ways to live ecologically on some foothill on Sierra Nevada while researching on aboriginals of several continents, including American Indian cultures and their ways of life. He tries to appreciate the North American continent, not from whiteman’s viewpoint, but from the viewpoint of nature history and American Indians’ point of view. He recognizes that most American Indians thought highly of the place, region where they lived, and of Mother Nature in which they gained food, and of the mutual relationship between human beings and animals in the wilderness and region. He, therefore, insists that modern American culture and its life style must consider old-aged American Indian cultures with ecological wisdom and develop ecological ways of life in the region and mutual relationship with animals in order to dwell on this Turtle Island from one generation to another. (Changwon University)