Rethinking Precolonial Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Deur
Professional Geographer, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 140-157
Description
Argues that although portrayed as exclusively "hunter-fisher-gatherers", there is ample evidence that the peoples of this region also created gardens of edible plants using sophisticated methods. Author further argues that this portrayal was used to rationalize dispossession of traditional territories.