Keeping It Living (eBook)

Douglas Deur is research coordinator with the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit at the University of Washington and adjunct professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nancy J. Turner is distinguished professor in environmental studies and geography at the University of Victoria. The other contributors include Kenneth M. Ames, E. Richard Atleo (Umeek), Melissa Darby, Douglas Hallett, James T. Jones, Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman, Rolf Mathewes, James McDonald, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Madonna L. Moss, Sandra Peacock, Bruce D. Smith, Robin Smith, Wayne Suttles, and Kevin Washbrook.

Preface / E. Richard Atleo, Umeek of Ahousat1. Introduction: Reassessing Indigenous Resource Management, Reassessing the History of an Idea / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. TurnerPart I. Concepts2. Low-Level Food Production and the Northwest Coast / Bruce D. Smith3. Intensification of Food Production on the Northwest Coast and Elsewhere / Kenneth M. Ames4. Solving the Perennial Pardox: Ethnobotanical Evidence for Plant Resource Management on the Northwest Coast / Nancy J. Turner and Sandra Peacock5. "A Fine Line Between Two Nations": Ownership Patterns for Plant Resources among Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples / Nancy J. Turner, Robin Smith, and James T. JonesPart II. Case Studies6. Coast Salish Resource Management: Incipient Agriculture? / Wayne Suttles7. The Intensification of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) by the Chinookan People of the Lower Columbia River / Melissa Darby8. Documenting Precontact Plant Management on the Northwest Coast: An Example of Prescribed Burning in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia / Dana Lepofsky, Douglas Hallett, Ken Lertzman, Rolf Mathewes, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, and Kevin Washbrook9. Cultivating in the Northwest: Early Accounts of Tsimshian Horticulture / James McDonald10. Tlingit Horticulture: An Indigenous or Introduced Development? / Madonna L. Moss11. Tending the Garden, Making the Soil: Northwest Coast Estuarine Gardens as Engineered Enrivonments / Douglas DeurPart III. Conclusions12. Conclusions / Douglas Deur and Nancy J. TurnerBibliographyContributorsIndex