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Demonstrates, what John 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Note on Languages, Territories, and Names
of California Indian Tribes
Introduction

PART I. CALIFORNIA AT CONTACT
1 Wildlife, Plants, and People
2 Gathering, Hunting, and Fishing
3 The Collision of Worlds

PART 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

PART 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Tending the Wild

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 10 October 2013
      ISBN-13 9780520280434
      978-0520280434
      ISBN-10 0520280431
      Also in:
      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Demonstrates, what John 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.

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      List of Tables
      Preface
      Note on Languages, Territories, and Names
      of California Indian Tribes
      Introduction

      PART I. CALIFORNIA AT CONTACT
      1 Wildlife, Plants, and People
      2 Gathering, Hunting, and Fishing
      3 The Collision of Worlds

      PART 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

      PART 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
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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