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Keeping it living : traditions of plant use and cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America / edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner.
"Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, Keeping It Living is the first comprehensive overview of how Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended, from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast." "With contributions from ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders, Keeping It Living documents practices, many unknown to European peoples, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 different species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 0295985127
- ISBN: 9780295985121
- ISBN: 0295985658
- ISBN: 9780295985657
- ISBN: 0774812664
- ISBN: 9780774812665
- ISBN: 0774812672
- ISBN: 9780774812672
- Physical Description: xi, 404 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; ©2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-377) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface, Umeek of Ahousat / E. Richard Atleo -- Introduction: reassessing indigenous resource management, reassessing the history of an idea / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner -- Low-level food production and the Northwest Coast / Bruce D. Smith -- Intensification of food production on the Northwest Coast and elsewhere / Kenneth M. Ames -- Solving the perennial paradox : ethnobotanical evidence for plant resource management on the Northwest Coast / Nancy J. Turner and Sandra Peacock -- "Fine line between two nations" : ownership patterns for plant resources among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples / Nancy J. Turner, Robin Smith, and James T. Jones -- Coast Salish resource management : incipient agriculture? / Wayne Suttles -- Intensification of wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan people of the Lower Columbia River / Melissa Darby -- Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast : an example of prescribed burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia / Dana Lepofsky [and others] -- Cultivating in the Northwest : early accounts of Tsimshian horticulture / James McDonald -- Tlingit horticulture : an indigenous or introduced development? / Madonna L. Moss -- Tending the garden, making the soil : Northwest Coast estuarine gardens as engineered environments / Douglas Deur -- Conclusions / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 98 .B7 N78 K44 2005 | 268286 | Stacks | Checked out | 10/07/2024 |
| Lummi Library | E 98 .B7 N78 K44 2005 | 271669 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PNW E 98 .B7 N78 K44 2005 | 288612 | PNW | Available | - |