Ecotourism and the Myth of Indigenous Stewardship was published in 2008 in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism and caused a flurry of articles to published in response.  I think that this article will provide some interesting counter balances to what I will be investigating in my final project.  The authors question the claim that indigenous people are indeed more ecologically minded than non-indigenous people by following four main perspectives:

1. survey of the ecotourism literature to gauge the sentiment behind indigenous peoples as wise stewards
2. literature review in other fields (eg. Anthropology and conservation science) to provide a more complete understanding of the role that aboriginal people play as ecological stewards
3. brief overview of the literature on social evolution from the biological standpoint
4. discussion of the foregoing in the context of ecotourism.

David A. Fennell (2008) Ecotourism and the Myth of Indigenous Stewardship,  Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 16:2, 129-149, DOI: 10.2167/jost736.0