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California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction (California Natural History Guides)

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Capturing the vitality of California’s unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction accommodates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, every boasting a wealthy village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. During, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state’s varied landscape, enhancing its already bountiful natural resources through more than a few practices centered around prescribed burning. A handy reference section, illustrated with multiple hundred color photographs, describes the plants, animals, and minerals the California Indians used for food, basketry and cordage, medicine, and more. At a time after we are grappling with the problems of maintaining habitat diversity and sustainable economies, we discover that these native peoples and their traditions have much to teach us in regards to the future, in addition to the past, of California.
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