“Berry Patch” As a Kind of Place—the Ethnoecology of Black Huckleberry in Northwestern Canada

Trusler, Scott; Johnson, Leslie Main

doi:10.1007/s10745-008-9176-3

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“…pacifica; Deur 2005). Terrestrial resources including various shrubs and trees were also tended, pruned, and fertilized to increase berry and fruit production (Thornton 1999, Trusler andJohnson 2008). Landscapes were routinely cleared and burned to promote the productivity of successional plant species (Boyd 1999, Lepofsky et al 2005a, such as the underground edible bulbs of camas (Camassia spp.…”

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Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Jackley¹,

Gardner²,

Djunaedi³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Indigenous communities have actively managed their environments for millennia using a diversity of resource use and conservation strategies. Clam gardens, ancient rock-walled intertidal beach terraces, represent one example of an early mariculture technology that may have been used to improve food security and confer resilience to coupled human-ocean systems. We surveyed a coastal landscape for evidence of past resource use and management to gain insight into ancient resource stewardship practices on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada. We found that clam gardens are embedded within a diverse portfolio of resource use and management strategies and were likely one component of a larger, complex resource management system. We compared clam diversity, density, recruitment, and biomass in three clam gardens and three unmodified nonwalled beaches. Evidence suggests that butter clams (Saxidomus gigantea) had 1.96 times the biomass and 2.44 times the density in clam gardens relative to unmodified beaches. This was due to a reduction in beach slope and thus an increase in the optimal tidal range where clams grow and survive best. The most pronounced differences in butter clam density between nonwalled beaches and clam gardens were found at high tidal elevations at the top of the beach. Finally, clam recruits (0.5-2 mm in length) tended to be greater in clam gardens compared to nonwalled beaches and may be attributed to the addition of shell hash by ancient people, which remains on the landscape today. As part of a broader social-ecological system, clam garden sites were among several modifications made by humans that collectively may have conferred resilience to past communities by providing reliable and diverse access to food resources.

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Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

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Djunaedi³

et al. 2016

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“…However, it has been shown that the positions of resource locales in the landscape were also based on socioeconomic factors, such as proximity to other resources or distance to other important structures, such as villages or paths (Trusler & Johnsson 2008). This indicates that native people planned their extraction of resources and chose areas for extraction that fitted into a larger network of activities, resources and facilities.…”

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Plants in a “Sea of Relationships”: Networks of Plants and Fishing in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada)

Oberndorfer¹,

Winters²,

Gear³

et al. 2017

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Different plants have played an important role historically in the subsistence of the native Sami people of northern Fennoscandia. Generally, their use of plants have however been regarded as less vital in their overall subsistence and in comparison to the domesticated reindeer and the hunted game and fish. Also, the impacts of early human plant use on specific plant-populations and the overall ecosystems which they inhabited have often been overlooked in research.In this thesis the traditional Sami practices and extent of plant use from the 1550s until 1900 was studied from two main perspectives; First) the cultural significance of Scots pine inner bark and A. archangelica was evaluated, in the perspective as a discrete form of resource utilization within a larger set of activities which constitute overall Sami subsistence, Second) The human impact of land use from a perspective of plant use was quantified and evaluated. Special emphasis in this thesis was placed on the role of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and garden Angelica (A. archangelica ssp. archangelica L.).My results show that: 1) Scots pine and A. archangelica are two of the Sami cultural key-stone species, since they were qualitatively vital for survival in these northerly regions.2) It is possible to manage and maintain stable populations of A. archangelica by conducting harvest according to traditional Sami practices, indicating that it is likely that the Sami did not only gathered but also enhanced certain wild plants. Furthermore, the Sami harvest of different Scots pine resources on a regional scale, was shown to be sustainable throughout the study period. 3) Northern Fennoscandia can be considered a domesticated landscape, even long before the onset of agriculture. The Sami have moved over large areas, but they made well informed decisions on what resources to obtain at what times. 4) A combination of methods from different fields should be used to understand Sami plant use in a subsistence context. By combining methods it is possible to understand both the details of how and why Sami used different plants, but also to investigate historical Sami subsistence at different spatial scales. Keywords

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“…In conclusion, pond fishing involves an exchange of trophic relationships between entities linked together by kin relationships. These interactions are mediated by agents of the human and spiritual worlds: the lineage head will receive the proscriptions and prescriptions of the spirits through dreams, (Fay 1989a, Fay 1989b, Ingold 2000, Pagezy 2006, Trusler and Johnson 2008, Descola 2011, Reo and Whyte 2012, Shepard 2014. A broadly shared vision is that animals give themselves, or are given by supernatural entities, to hunters and fishermen (Levy-Bruhl 1963;Pagezy 2006;Reo and Whyte 2012).…”

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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits

Comptour¹,

Caillon²,

McKey³

2016

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“Berry Patch” As a Kind of Place—the Ethnoecology of Black Huckleberry in Northwestern Canada

Cited by 48 publications

References 18 publications

Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems

Plants in a “Sea of Relationships”: Networks of Plants and Fishing in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada)

Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits

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