Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources Non-Fiction The complex picture that emerges

The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources Non-Fiction The complex picture that emergesJohn Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold todaythat much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what 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