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Informationen zum Autor M. Kat Anderson is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis; Associate Ecologist at the Agricultural Experimental Station at the University of California, Davis; and a faculty member in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor, with T. C. Blackburn, of Before the Wilderness: Native Californians as Environmental Managers (1993) and coeditor, with Henry T. Lewis, of Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness by Omer C. Stewart (2002). Klappentext "This is a highly significant—one might argue revolutionary—book. It, and the author's previous research, has the potential to completely change the way western land managers relate to the land and the resources they are trying to regulate. Even more, it has the power to influence the way that all of us approach Nature and will reinforce the importance of Native Americans and the sophistication of their knowledge."—Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria " Tending the Wild is an enormously rich and highly readable text on the remarkably diverse land management techniques practiced by California Indians over millennia. This book serves as an invaluable resource as we strive to conserve California's enormous cultural and biotic heritage in the new century. A triumph!"—Michael H. Horn, California State University Fullerton " Tending the Wild supports the little-known fact that Indian groups in California historically practiced a kind of "environmental bonsai" through their centuries long management activities. Kat Anderson's work is timely and will make an important contribution toward a better understanding of the historic ecologies of North America."—Greg Cajete, University of New Mexico Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
