Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

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Contents Preface e. richard atleo, Umeek of Ahousat vii 1 / Introduction: Reassessing Indigenous Resource Management, Reassessing the History of an Idea douglas deur and nancy j. turner 3 part i. Concepts 2 / Low-Level Food Production and the Northwest Coast bruce d. smith 37 3 / Intensification of Food Production on the Northwest Coast and Elsewhere kenneth m. ames 67 4 / Solving the Perennial Paradox: Ethnobotanical Evidence for Plant Resource Management on the Northwest Coast nancy j. turner and sandra peacock 101 5 / “A Fine Line Between Two Nations”: Ownership Patterns for Plant Resources among Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples nancy j. turner, robin smith, and james t. jones 151 part ii. Case Studies 6 / Coast Salish Resource Management: Incipient Agriculture? wayne suttles 181 v 7 / The Intensification of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan People of the Lower Columbia River melissa darby 194 8 / Documenting Precontact Plant Management on the Northwest Coast: An Example of Prescribed Burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia dana lepofsky, douglas hallett, ken lertzman, rolf mathewes, albert (sonny) mchalsie, and kevin washbrook 218 9 / Cultivating in the Northwest: Early Accounts of Tsimshian Horticulture james mcdonald 240 10 / Tlingit Horticulture: An Indigenous or Introduced Development? madonna l. moss 274 11 / Tending the Garden, Making the Soil: Northwest Coast Estuarine Gardens as Engineered Environments douglas deur 296 part iii. Conclusions 12 / Conclusions douglas deur and nancy j. turner 331 Bibliography 343 Contributors 379 Index 381 vi Contents ...