Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources / M. Kat Anderson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Kat, 1955-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Agriculture > California.
Indigenous peoples of North America > California > History.
Human ecology > California.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > California > History.
Indiens d'Amérique > Agriculture > Californie.
Indiens d'Amérique > Californie > Histoire.
Écologie humaine > Californie.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Californie > Histoire.
Physical Description:xxix, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. I. California at contact
  • 1. The wildlife, plants, and people
  • 2. Gathering, hunting, and fishing
  • 3. The collision of worlds
  • pt. II. Indigenous land management and its ecological basis
  • 4. Methods of caring for the land
  • 5. Landscapes of stewardship
  • 6. Basketry : cultivating forbs, sedges, grasses, and tules
  • 7. From arrows to weirs : cultivating shrubs and trees
  • 8. California's cornucopia : a calculated abundance
  • 9. Plant foods aboveground : seeds, grains, leaves, and fruits
  • 10. Plant foods belowground : bulbs, corms, rhizomes, taproots, and tubers
  • pt. III. Rekindling the old ways
  • 11. Contemporary California Indian harvesting and management practices
  • 12. Restoring landscapes with native knowledge
  • Coda : indigenous wisdom in the modern world.