Tending the wild
Subtitle: Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources
By: M. Kat Anderson.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780520238565; 9780520248519
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Agriculture -- California; Indians of North America -- California -- History; Human ecology -- California; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- California -- History
Description: "Tending the Wild is an examination of the extensive knowledge Native Americans brought to bear in managing California's natural resources and the imprint this management left on the state's landscape. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information gleaned from biological research and historical literature, as well as interviews with California Indians who describe the Old Ways of relating to nature they learned from their parents and grandparents and still practice today. The complex picture that emerges dispels the stereotype of Native Americans as hunter-gatherers, a stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-470) and index.
Table of contents: title: The wildlife, plants, and people; title: Gathering, hunting, and fishing; title: The collision of worlds; title: Methods of caring for the land; title: Landscapes of stewardship; title: Basketry : cultivating forbs, sedges, grasses, and tules; title: From arrows to weirs : cultivating shrubs and trees; title: California's cornucopia : a calculated abundance; title: Plant foods aboveground : seeds, grains, leaves, and fruits; title: Plant foods belowground : bulbs, corms, rhizomes, taproots, and tubers; title: Contemporary California Indian harvesting and management practices; title: Restoring landscapes with native knowledge; title: Coda : indigenous wisdom in the modern world.