Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space
From the earliest arrival of European peoples on the coast of what is now British Columbia, the intricate knowledge systems and traditional resource and landscape management practices of First Nations were generally overlooked. This was true, even as the landscape exhibited many signs of these tradi...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/184182 2023-05-15T16:15:08+02:00 Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space Deur, Douglas Turner, Nancy Recalma-Clutesi, Kim Dick (KWAXSISTALLA), Clan Chief Adam Sewid-Smith (MAYANILTH), Daisy 2013-10-30 application/pdf image/jpeg http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182 eng eng The University of British Columbia http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182/184173 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182/187479 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182/187480 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182/187481 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182.g184173 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182.g187479 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182.g187480 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182.g187481 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184182 doi:10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 179: Ethnobotany in BC: Autumn 2013; 13-37 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.v0i179 Kwakwaka'wakw estuarine root gardens colonialism territorial dispossession Kingcome Village British Columbia aquaculture Kwaxasistalla (Clan Chief Adam Dick) land settlement History of the Americas info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2013 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184182 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179 2023-01-04T07:47:30Z From the earliest arrival of European peoples on the coast of what is now British Columbia, the intricate knowledge systems and traditional resource and landscape management practices of First Nations were generally overlooked. This was true, even as the landscape exhibited many signs of these traditions, such as Indigenous clam gardens, estuarine root gardens, camas prairies and many other anthropogenic sites and plant species they encompassed. As Europeans moved into the region and started acquiring land for settlement and development, many of these carefully tended landscapes were appropriated through various mechanisms, supported by colonial land policy. First Nations, especially along the BC coast, were relegated to small reserves encompassing individual village sites, fishing stations and little else, with the assumption that they did not really need a substantial land base because they were totally dependent on fishing. First Nations lost control of many key resource harvesting areas; without the ability to manage them as before, they experienced both a loss of traditional food sources and a deterioration of places and practices they had formerly been integral to the harvest. Only recently, as a new generation of ethnoecologists, archaeologists, geographers and other scholars has collaborated with Indigenous knowledge holders, has the role of First Nations as highly sophisticated resource managers and purposive modifiers of the land been more widely recognized. Efforts are now underway to document the intricacies of traditional management systems, so that, where possible, some of these might be reinstated as part of an overall movement to recognize Indigenous land rights and food security. And, while First Nations may still lack title to many of the lands once integral to the traditional resource harvest, those lands retain a degree of significance and Indigenous land users still work in both practical and symbolic ways to maintain community ties to these important places. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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From the earliest arrival of European peoples on the coast of what is now British Columbia, the intricate knowledge systems and traditional resource and landscape management practices of First Nations were generally overlooked. This was true, even as the landscape exhibited many signs of these traditions, such as Indigenous clam gardens, estuarine root gardens, camas prairies and many other anthropogenic sites and plant species they encompassed. As Europeans moved into the region and started acquiring land for settlement and development, many of these carefully tended landscapes were appropriated through various mechanisms, supported by colonial land policy. First Nations, especially along the BC coast, were relegated to small reserves encompassing individual village sites, fishing stations and little else, with the assumption that they did not really need a substantial land base because they were totally dependent on fishing. First Nations lost control of many key resource harvesting areas; without the ability to manage them as before, they experienced both a loss of traditional food sources and a deterioration of places and practices they had formerly been integral to the harvest. Only recently, as a new generation of ethnoecologists, archaeologists, geographers and other scholars has collaborated with Indigenous knowledge holders, has the role of First Nations as highly sophisticated resource managers and purposive modifiers of the land been more widely recognized. Efforts are now underway to document the intricacies of traditional management systems, so that, where possible, some of these might be reinstated as part of an overall movement to recognize Indigenous land rights and food security. And, while First Nations may still lack title to many of the lands once integral to the traditional resource harvest, those lands retain a degree of significance and Indigenous land users still work in both practical and symbolic ways to maintain community ties to these important places. |
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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space |
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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space |
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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space |
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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space |
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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space |
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subsistence and resistance on the british columbia coast: kingcome village’s estuarine gardens as contested space |
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