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