Pacific Northwest's 'forest gardens' were deliberately planted by Indigenous people

[jeffreyi]

Last edited Thu Apr 22, 2021, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people

...For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes—villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s—were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn. A new study reveals that isolated patches of fruit trees and berry bushes in the region’s hemlock and cedar forests were deliberately planted by Indigenous peoples in and around their settlements more than 150 years ago. It’s one of the first times such “forest gardens” have been identified outside the tropics, and it shows that people were capable of changing forests in long-lasting, productive ways...

[soothsayer]

1. Very cool

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

[central scrutinizer]

3. And they used controlled burns

To clear underbrush and improve hunting

[efhmc]

4. Did that in the plains of the US also. I do not know about the forests.

[Maraya1969]

5. That link sends me knowhere.

[jeffreyi]

6. Fixed. Thx for heads up.

[Judi Lynn]

7. So glad to see this! Have read about this before in a book written by an indigenous woman.

The invading society has tried in every way to disrespect and degrade the image of those who were here already, in order to escape being known themselves as genocidal murderers, torturers, and land thieves who stole an entire continent, while murdering as many as possible and traumatizing the survivors, treating them as strangers in their own homeland.

It's an important event when any actual truth actually is revealed about them at all.