Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.
Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.
C. Thomas Shay is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of The Itasca Bison Kill Site: An Ecological Analysis, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Wide Vistas, Azure Skies 1. Sculpting the Land 2. Land of the Restless Wind 3. The Land Is Sacred 4. Among the Ancient Archives 5. From Gathering to Growing 6. Nature’s Bounty 7. Medicinal and Mystical Plants 8. From Tools to Toys Epilogue: Under Autumn Skies Appendix: Selected Wild Plants of the Northern Plains Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Wide Vistas, Azure Skies 1. Sculpting the Land 2. Land of the Restless Wind 3. The Land Is Sacred 4. Among the Ancient Archives 5. From Gathering to Growing 6. Nature’s Bounty 7. Medicinal and Mystical Plants 8. From Tools to Toys Epilogue: Under Autumn Skies Appendix: Selected Wild Plants of the Northern Plains Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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