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PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER
Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 140-157Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00322
Keywords
estuaries; ethnographic; representation; indigenous peoples; Northwest Coast; plant cultivation
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The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America are widely believed to have been true hunter-fisher-gatherers, lacking plant cultivation of any kind. This depiction of the region's indigenous inhabitants emerged within early colonial accounts and was perpetuated within the literatures of geography, anthropology, and archaeology. Still, there is ample evidence of plant cultivation available from archival, archaeological, and ethnographic sources. In particular, the peoples of coastol British Columbia created large gardens of edible estuarine plants, using sophisticated indigenous technologies. The oversight of these practices in written representations of the region reveals consistent patterns of bias, emanating from the agendas of colonial agents and early academics alike. In turn, this bias has undermined aboriginal traditions of cultivation and indigenous land claims.
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