{"product_id":"keeping-it-living-douglas-e-deur-9780295985657","title":"Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, and berries that were peripheral to a diet and culture focused on salmon. Colonizers who followed the explorers used these claims to justify the displacement of Native groups from their lands. Scholars now understand, however, that Northwest Coast peoples were actively cultivating plants well before their first contact with Europeans. This book is the first comprehensive overview of how Northwest Coast Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures, \u003ci\u003eKeeping It Living\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of traditional plant cultivation practices found from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders, \u003ci\u003eKeeping It Living\u003c\/i\u003e documents practices, many unknown to European peoples, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 different species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas E. Deur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295985658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295985657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.26w x 1.03d","brand":"Douglas E. Deur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981534953727,"sku":"9780295985657","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c68f11b9-a2c6-42bd-9faa-2226ceab115d.jpg?v=1683256144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keeping-it-living-douglas-e-deur-9780295985657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}