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

摘要: The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, berries were peripheral to a diet culture focused on salmon. Colonizers followed these claims justify displacement Native groups from their lands. Scholars now understand, however, peoples actively cultivating plants well before contact with Europeans. This book is comprehensive overview how Americans managed landscape cared for plant communities which they depended. Bringing together some world's most prominent specialists cultures, Keeping It Living tells story traditional cultivation practices found Oregon coast Southeast Alaska. explores tobacco gardens among Haida Tlingit, camas plots Salish Puget Sound Strait Georgia, estuarine root along central British Columbia, wapato maintenance Columbia Fraser Rivers, tended berry up down coast. With contributions ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, American scholars elders, documents practices, many unknown peoples, involve manipulating as environments in ways enhanced culturally preferred communities. describes indigenous this over 300 different species plants, lofty red cedar diminutive backwater bogs.