Kwakwaka’wakw “Clam Gardens”

摘要: The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast North America actively managed natural resources in diverse ways to enhance their productivity and proximity. Among those practices that have escaped attention anthropologists until recently is traditional management intertidal clam beds, which enhanced through techniques such as selective harvests, removal shells other debris, mechanical aeration soil matrix. In some cases, harvesters also removed stones or even created stone revetments served laterally expand sediments suitable for production into previously unusable portions tidal zone. This article presents only account these activities, motivations, outcomes, based on first-hand knowledge a practitioner, Kwakwaka’wakw Clan Chief Kwaxistalla Adam Dick, trained by elders raised nineteenth century when “gardening” was still widely practiced.