From the earliest arrival of European peoples on the coast of what is now British Columbia, the intricate knowledge systems and traditional resource and landscape management practices of First Nations were generally overlooked. This was true, even as the landscape…

Plants shape landscapes, and are in turn responsive to the characteristics of the land. In British Columbia, people interacted, and still interact, with plants through their movements on their territories, through the pattern of the seasons, through the course of…

Palaeoethnobotany is a steadily growing sub-discipline of archaeology in British Columbia. This paper summarizes what we have learned from the study of ancient plant remains in the Coast and Interior of British Columbia. Although plants have been identified in the…

Studies on the naming and classification of plants by First Peoples of British Columbia began with the works of early ethnographers like Franz Boas. In the 1970s, however, research in this area became more focused in BC, following general trends…

This paper provides an overview of the diverse plant resource management strategies of First Nations of BC. Contrary to the predominant “hunter-gatherer” designation by anthropologists and others, First Peoples of many parts of the province were actually astute managers of…

ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples’ food systems benefit the health of Indigenous Peoples. Recognizing that contemporary diets are composed of both local foods and food purchased in markets, it is important to build community nutrition activities in indigenous communities to maximize the…