Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 19, 2024

Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests 7k+ yrs ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years
nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/8qblQ

* could help First Nations secure land rights, Cdn courts
* actively cultivated crop
* transported hazelnuts 800 km
* cultivate nutritious/reliable food source in new regions

Genetic differentiation/precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2402304121

#Canada #Indigenous #BC #BritishColumbia #cultivation #anthropology #LandRights

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 26, 2024

Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests 7k+ yrs ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hazelnut-research-1.7392860
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113507028148383483

* hazelnuts had been transplanted/cultivated for at least 7,000 years by Gitxsan, Tsimshian, & Nisga'a peoples
* research emphasizes Indigenous peoples' contributions to creation/maintenance of region's ecosystems

#Canada #Indigenous #BC #BritishColumbia #cultivation #crops #hazelnuts #anthropology #LandRights #PlantGenetics #ecosystem #agriculture

Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago | CBC News

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now B.C. had been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years.

CBC
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How Hazelnuts Reveal Secrets from an Ancient British Columbia City
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/04/Hazelnuts-Reveal-Secrets-Ancient-BC-City

* research on tiny nut suggests Indigenous people cultivated food before wheat farming began in Egypt
* hazelnuts grow on low-lying bushes that proliferate near Hazelton, other areas of B.C.
* likely transplanted over 100s km by Indigenous people who lived in region 1,000s of years ago

#Canada #Indigenous #BritishColumbia #cultivation #anthropology #LandRights #agriculture

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2024

Indigenous tribe regaining control of ancestral lands while fighting climate change
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112899057042227042

* From dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe are better able to protect their environment

#Indigenous #autonomy #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #California #Klamath #environmentalism #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2024

Under 'Grandma moon' Native Americans honor sacred pact w. salmon
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5232064/under-grandma-moon-native-americans-honor-their-sacred-pact-with-salmon

* Puget Sound area, WA state
* lush lands home of Nisqually tribe
* Nisqually Indian Tribe members gathered for Winter Moon Celebration on this soggy solstice
* salmon a 10k-year-old taste, wh. recalls their ancestors: "It just tastes like time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually

#Indigenous #PugetSound #Nisqually #CoastSalish #salmon #GrandmaMoon #WinterMoon #solstice #IndigenousFood

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2024

The Power of Community Archeology to Reconcile
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113507341340700482

* fish traps, clam gardens & middens part of everybody’s history
What dinner in Burrard Inlet looked like 500 years ago
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112921649226023554

* Tsleil-Waututh First Nation usesdata on ancestors’ diet to restore habitat & heal industrialized Burrard Inlet

#Canada #BritishColumbia #indigenous #anthropology #UBC #FoodSecurity #zooarcheology #TraditionalDiets #CoastSalish #TsleilWaututh #middens