Tending the Wild Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

Name: Tending the Wild Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
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ISBN: 9780520280434

ISBN-10: 0520280431

ISBN-13: 9780520280434

Edition: 2013

Authors: M. Kat Anderson

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 558
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English