Online Resources












Chesnut, V. K. 1902. "Plants used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California." in Systematic and geographic botany and aboriginal uses of plants, 295–408. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27156

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USDA NRCS - National Plant Data Team (August 2012). Edible Seeds and Grains of California Tribes and the Klamath Tribe of Oregon in the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology Collections, University of California, Berkeley 

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/documents/EdibleSeedsGrainsCaliforniaTribes.pdf

or direct download:

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/PA_NRCSConsumption/download?cid=stelprdb1246230&ext=pdf

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From tillage to table: The indigenous cultivation of geophytes for food in California. Kat Anderson (1997) Journal of Ethnobiology 17(2): 149-169.

https://ethnobiology.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/JoE/17-2/MKAnderson1997.pdf

and

https://archive.org/details/biostor-175177

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Anderson, M. Kat; Lake, Frank K. 2016. Beauty, bounty, and biodiversity: the story of California Indian's relationship with edible native geophytes. Fremontia

https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/lake/psw_2017_lake002_anderson.pdf

also found within the entire December 2016 Fremontia issue, dedicated to geophytes, here:

https://cnps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FremontiaV44.3.pdf

(this has many other great articles on California geophytes)


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USDA NRCS  (August 2010) Indigenous Stewardship Methods and NRCS Conservation Practices Guidebook

https://www.fws.gov/nativeamerican/pdf/tek-indigenous.pdf

and

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1045245.pdf


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USDA NRCS (September 2007) Technical Note No. 2 -Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks of the Far Western United States

https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/OpenNonWebContent.aspx?content=25907.wba







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Native Peoples’ Relationship to the California Chaparral. M. Kat Anderson and Jon E. Keeley (2018). Chapter 4 of E. C. Underwood et al. (eds.), Valuing Chaparral, Springer Series on Environmental Management.

https://egret.org/sites/default/files/andersonkeeley2018.pdf

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USDA NRCS - NPDC (October 2004) Technical Note No. 1 - Traditional Ecological Knowledge:  An Important Facet of Natural Resources Conservation  

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1045244.pdf

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Technical Note 78. Native American Plant Resource Hedgerow Establishment (PDF; 25 KB) Lockeford Plant Materials Center. Lockeford, CA. 400p. (ID# 7882)

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/capmctn7882.pdf