Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction: Reassessing Indigenous Resource Management, Reassessing the History of an Idea 1
5. Part I. Concepts
6. 2. Low-Level Food Production and the Northwest Coast 37
7. 3. Intensification of Food Production on the Northwest Coast and Elsewhere 67
8. 4. Solving the Perennial Paradox: Ethnobotanical Evidence for Plant Resource Management on the Northwest Coast 101
9. 5. “A Fine Line Between Two Nations”: Ownership Patterns for Plant Resources among Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples 151
10. Part II. Case Studies
11. 6. Coast Salish Resource Management: Incipient Agriculture? 181
12. 7. The Intensification of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan People of the Lower Columbia River 194
13. 8. Documenting Precontact Plant Management on the Northwest Coast: An Example of Prescribed Burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia 218
14. 9. Cultivating in the Northwest: Early Accounts of Tsimshian Horticulture 240
15. 10. Tlingit Horticulture: An Indigenous or Introduced Development? 274
16. 11. Tending the Garden, Making the Soil: Northwest Coast Estuarine Gardens as Engineered Environments 296
17. Part III. Conclusions
18. 12. Conclusions 331
19. Bibliography 343
20. Contributors 379
21. Index 381