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Tending the Wild - Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources (Paperback)
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Tending the Wild - Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources (Paperback)
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John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today -
that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before
the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book
demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand
vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the
Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and
Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of
harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously
detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an
unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of
California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of
native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge
in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth
of information on native land management practices gleaned in part
from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall
what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were
burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry,
and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from
this and other historical source material dispels the
hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and
historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous
people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship.
Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional
ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet
the challenge of living sustainably.
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