Food Plants of Interior First Peoples
- Publisher
- Royal BC Museum
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2007
- Category
- Native American, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780772658463
- Publish Date
- Nov 2007
- List Price
- $26.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9
- Grade: 4
Description
Nancy Turner describes more than 150 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by First Peoples east of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and northern Washington. Each description includes information on where to find the plant and a discussion on traditional methods of harvesting and preparation.
About the author
Nancy J. Turner is an ethnobotanist, and Distinguished Professor Emerita, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Canada. She has worked with First Nations elders and cultural specialists in northwestern North America for over 50 years, helping to document, retain and promote their traditional knowledge of plants and environments, including Indigenous foods, materials and traditional medicines. Her two-volume book, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (July, 2014; McGill-Queen’s University Press), integrates her long term research. She has authored or co-authored/co-edited 30 other books, including: Plants of Haida Gwaii; The Earth’s Blanket; “Keeping It Living” (with Doug Deur); Saanich Ethnobotany (with Richard Hebda), and Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples, and over 150 book chapters and papers. Her latest edited book is Plants, People and Places: the Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond (2020). She has received a number of awards for her work, including membership in Order of British Columbia (1999) and the Order of Canada (2009), honorary degrees from University of British Columbia, University of Northern British Columbia and Vancouver Island and Simon Fraser Universities.
Librarian Reviews
Food Plants of Interior First Peoples
For centuries, Aboriginal peoples in BC have harvested a variety of wild plant foods. They learned which plants to eat, the best seasons for gathering, the most efficient methods of harvesting and the best ways to prepare them. Nancy Turner, an internationally renowned ethnobotanist, describes more than 150 plant foods used in the interior of British Columbia and northern Washington. She provides the plant’s common and Latin name, botanical description, distribution in BC and Aboriginal use.Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2007-2008.
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