To harvest, to hunt : stories of resource use in the American West

Book

To harvest, to hunt : stories of resource use in the American West / edited by Judy L. Li.

Li, Judy L. (Added Author).

Summary:

"To Harvest, To Hunt reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters, oral traditions, historical records, and personal experience, the book's contributors offer leaders new perspectives on the land they live on, the harvests they consume, and the natural resources they manage."--book jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780870711923
ISBN: 087071192X
ISBN: 9780870711930
ISBN: 0870711938
Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Return of the canoe journey / Charles Wilkinson -- Walrus hunting in a changing Arctic / Deanna Kingston -- Comanaging sea otter : a model of modern Alaska Native stewardship / Dolly Garza -- Resolution / David R. Hatch -- California Indian basketweavers and the landscape / Margaret S. Mathewson -- Shifting patterns of land use in Monterey, California before 1850 / Steven W. Hackel -- Lost China camps / Judith L. Li -- Lorenzo's letters : a Basque immigrant's experience in the American West / John Bieter -- Clifton gillnetters : their ethnic and occupational identity / Irene Martin -- Logger poetry and music : the culture of harvest / Jim LeMonds -- From sojourners to settlers : Mexicanos in Oregon / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry -- In wind and sand : landscape and the reading of the Gila River internment camp / Patti Sakurai -- April : spring weeds / David Mas Masumoto -- Aamodt, schmaamodt : who really gets the water? / John Nichols.