Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-377) and index.
Contents:
Preface, Conclusions / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner. Introduction: reassessing indigenous resource management, reassessing the history of an idea / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner -- Low-level food production and the Northwest Coast / Bruce D. Smith -- Intensification of food production on the Northwest Coast and elsewhere / Kenneth M. Ames -- Solving the perennial paradox : ethnobotanical evidence for plant resource management on the Northwest Coast / Nancy J. Turner and Sandra Peacock -- "Fine line between two nations" : ownership patterns for plant resources among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples / Nancy J. Turner, Robin Smith, and James T. Jones -- Coast Salish resource management : incipient agriculture? / Wayne Suttles -- Intensification of wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan people of the Lower Columbia River / Melissa Darby -- Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast : an example of prescribed burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia / Dana Lepofsky ... [et al.] -- Cultivating in the Northwest : early accounts of Tsimshian horticulture / James McDonald -- Tlingit horticulture : an indigenous or introduced development? / Madonna L. Moss -- Tending the garden, making the soil : Northwest Coast estuarine gardens as engineered environments / Douglas Deur -- Conclusions / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner.
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