Tending The Wild: Native American Knowledge And The Management Of California's Natural Resources

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.

• | By (Author): M. Kat Anderson
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 10, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 558 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0520280431
• | ISBN-13: 9780520280434