Product Description: The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, and berries that were peripheral to a diet and culture focused on salmon...read more

Product Description: This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.

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Product Description: A handbook on the uses of plants by Aboriginal people in British Columbia and surrounding areas. The author explains native harvesting and preparation techniques for more than 100 plants, including their various uses and importance in Aboriginal material cultures. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book describes some 300 plant species used by the people of the Okanagan, Thompson, Carrier, Chilcotin, and Kootenay, among others. Detailed botanical descriptions of the plants aer accompanied by photographs and notes on their habitat and distributions as well as information on their collection, preparation, and use...read more

Identifies and describes poisonous plants, and provides information on their range, toxicity, and treatment

Product Description: This volume details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of traditional food plants of indigenous Canadian Peoples. It contains an index of over one thousand plants from all provinces of Canada, as well as the bordering states, for which the Indian and Inuit peoples of each regfion have been consulted as the definitive source concerning plant usage within the scope of their environment and culture...read more

Product Description: This illustrated guide and cookbook will introduce you to foods that are delicious, rich in vitamins and minerals, and yours for the picking. These so-called weeds can be found in your own garden or on a country walk, and are as nutritious as the more common vegetables...read more