E T H N O B I O L O G Y 2001

Society of Ethnobiology 24^th Annual Conference

Durango, Colorado March 7- March 10, 2001

Tentative Program

Conference Coordinator:

Enrique Salmon

Organizing Committee

Enrique Salmon

Neil Logan

Heather Penrose

Marty Stebbins

Eliza Thomas

Sara Wakefield

Rowen White

Fort Lewis College

Sponsoring Departments and Administrative Units

Department of Anthropology

Center of Southwest Studies

Excellence Grant

Welcome to the Society of Ethnobiology

24th Annual Conference

Durango, Colorado

Fort Lewis College would like to welcome you to the 24^th Annual Ethnobiology Conference. This year’s event is being held in the newly opened Center for Southwest Studies. We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay at “Colorado’s Campus in the Sky.”

General Information

All sessions will be held in the Center of Southwest Studies.

Opening Registration and Reception: 6-8 pm Reception Room

Daily Registration: Reception Room

Poster Sessions: Exhibits Gallery – Presentation times in Program

Book Displays and Sales: 8am – 5pm Thursday and Friday, Center for Southwest Studies Library

T-Shirts and Souvenirs: 8am – 5pm Thursday and Friday, Center for Southwest Studies Library

Slide Preview Room: 212

Membership Renewals: Reception Room

Executive Board Meeting: Friday 12:30 –2:00 Conference Room 271, 2^nd Floor

Banquet: 7pm Friday (banquet ticket required), Ballroom, 2^nd floor College Union Building

Keynote Address: 8pm Friday; Simon Ortiz

Entertainment: 9pm Friday; To be announced

Field Trips: Saturday; Mesa Verde, Silverton Train, or Four Corners Ecological Sites

Tentative Program and Schedule of Papers and Events

(All sessions are in the Center of Southwest Studies)

March 7, 2001

Wednesday Evening

Opening Registration and Reception

March 8, 2001

Thursday Morning

8:00 -10:00 Registration

Lyceum Welcome on Behalf of Fort Lewis College

8:30

Thursday Morning

Lyceum Symposium: Early Agricultural Sites in the Sonoran Desert

9:00 Bioarchaeology of the Southern Arizona late Archaic: An osteological perspective on the agricultural transition: John McClelland

9:20 Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona: Michael W. Diehll and Jennifer A. Waters

9:40 Small Mammals as Indicators of Site Use Intensity in the Early Agricultural Period: Rebecca M. Dean

10:00 Lagomorph Consumption at a Southwestern Archaic Site: Regina Chapin-Pyritz

10:20 Early Agricultural Bone Tool Use: Janet Griffitts

Thursday Morning

Room 220 Ethnobiology of Domestic Plants

11:00 Domestication of Chia Salvia hispanica L. a Mesoamerican seed crop: Joseph Cahill

11:20 Archaeological Implications of Modern Ku-nu-che, Cherokee Hickory Nut Soup: Gayle J. Fritz

11:40 Differences between domestic and forest-growing enset (Ensete ventricosum (Wewl.) Cheesman, Musaceae) in southwest Ethiopia: implication for early plant husbandry and domestication processes: Elisabeth Hildebrand

Thursday Morning

Room 230 Traditional Resource Management

9:00 Untitled: Verna Miller

9:20 Untitled: Judy Logback, Luci Latina Fernandes, Pamela Erickson, Gregory Anderson, Heather Lloyd, and Michelle Cote

9:40 An Ethnobotanical Study of Sweetgrass: A means to integrate TEK and SEK: Daniela Shebitz

10:00 Traditional Phenological Knowledge (TPK) of British Columbia First Peoples: T.C. Lantz

10:20 BREAK

10:40 Some Population Genetic Consequences of Traditional Ecological Activities: Lori Weingartner

11:00 The Fire, Pruning, and Coppice Management of Temperate Ecosystems for Basketry Material by California Indian Tribes: M. Kat Anderson

11:20 Digging Ipos – Experiments Related to the Behavioral Chain Analysis of Perideridia spp.: Susan Marie Gleason

11:40 Walking on Egg Shells: Tlingit Traditional Environmental Knowledge and the Management of a “Wilderness” Park: Eugene Hunn, Darryll Johnson, Thomas F. Thornton, and Priscilla Russell

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

Thursday Afternoon

Room 220 Ethnobiological Methods, Commentary, and History

2:00 Bioprospection antecedents in Mexico: 18^th century English Collections from New Spain: Robert Bye and Edelmira Linares

2:20 Exhibiting Ethnobotany: a Basket Case: Jan Timbrook

2:40 Potter Valley Pomo ethnobotany in the writings of Dr. John W. Hudson (1857-1936): James R. Welch

3:00 Animal, Vegetable, and …Ethnomineralogy, the “other” category which completes Ethnoecology: Karol Chandler-Ezell

3:20 Extracting ethnobotanical knowledge from urban and rural population in El Salvador: C.R. Ramirez-Sosa, S. Yates, and D.T. Kincaid

3:40 The Morality of Ethnobiology: E.N. Anderson

Thursday Afternoon

Room 230 Traditional Resource Management

2:00 Lookouts, Fish Lakes, and Moose Licks – a Consideration of Northern Dene Ethnoecology: Leslie Main Johnson and Alestine Andre

2:20 Lessons from the Land: Traditional burning of Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Huckleberry Sites: Scott Trusler

2:40 Women and Homegarden in Ecuador: Maricel Piniero

3:00 One Nation Undivided: Kristin T. Ruppel

3:20 BREAK

3:40 No Beaver, No Beaver Root: the Importance of Animals in Dene Tsaa Tse K’nai Ethnobotany: Kelly Bannister, Mary Chipesia, Alex Chpesia, Louie Notseta and Fred Jumbie

4:00 Two Tobaccos: Donn L Todt

4:20 A Burning Issue – Native Use of Fire in the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve: Cheryl Mack

4:40 Giesta (Cytisus, Favaceae): essential wild resource for traditional agriculture in Trancoso, Portugal: Geroge F. Estabrook

Thursday Afternoon

Exhibits Gallery Poster Session

2:00 Aristolochia salvadorensis (Aristolochiacaea) an endemic medicinal plant species of El Salvador: Elissa M. Ladd, Stacy M. Chiappinelli, Carlos R. Ramirez-Sosa, and Michael Temkin

2:30 Major Plant species sustainably harvested for craft production by 200 Quichua Indian artisans in the Callari cooperative: Judy Logback, Luci Latina Fernandes, Pamela Erickson, Gregory J. Anderson, Heather Lloyd

3:00 Propagation and conservation of medicinal plants in the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico: Robert Bye, Martin Hilerio, Joel Rodriguez, Myrna Mendoza, Gustavo Morales, Hugo Bolanos, and Mabel Hernandez

3:30 Cultural enhancement through ecological restoration: Ann Garibardi

4:00 Medicinal Plants of El Salvador: The Effectiveness of “Traditional Healing: C.R. Ramirez-Sosa and M.B. McDonnell

Thursday Evening

Lyceum Symposium: Unheard Voices, Sojourn in Land Stewardship

7:00 Simon Ortiz

7:20 Gregory Cajete

7:40 Dennis Martinez

8:00 Pauline Esteves

8:20 BREAK

8:40 Eric Polingyouma

9:00 Verna Miller

9:20 Felipe Molina

9:40 Enrique Salmon

March 8, 2001

Friday Morning

Room 220 Communication Networks, Folklore, and Cognition

9:00 Tibetan Medicinal Plant Nomenclature: a preliminary study: Denise Glover

9:20 Beyond Myth, Beyond Sky: Teaching and Taboo in the Star Husband Tale: Ann Garibaldi

9:40 Analytic Uses of Creolozation in Ka’Apor Ethnobotany; William Balee

10:00 Problems with bullheads: Deane Osterman

10:20 BREAK

10:40 Bedouin Arabic Plant Classification: A Nomadic Pastoralist Case: James Mandaville

11:00 “The leaf that grows out of itself:” Ecological perspectivism, ethnobiological knowledge, and biological impossibilities among the Runa of Amazonian Ecuador: Eduardo O. Kohn

11:20 Steps towards understanding a Huichol taxonomy of Kieri: Angel Aedo and Robert Bye

11:40 Southern Paiute Toponomy: Linguistic Clues to Environmental Perception: Catherine S. Fowler

12:00 The Modification of Hispano Ethnomedical Knowledge in San Luis, Colorado as a Response to Environmental Loss and Degradation: Sue Johnston

Friday Morning

Room 230 Ethnological Restoration

9:00 Valuing Those Soggy, Boggy Places: the Cultural Significance of Wetlands in British Columbia: Nancy J. Turner, Mary Thomas, Ann Garibaldi, and George Nicholas

9:20 The White Dove of the Desert, Mission San Javier Del Bac: Why Nopal Juice (Opuntia Ficus-Indica) is now used to Protect Mission Walls: Karen R. Adams

9:40 Cultural Invisioning of land Use Change in Nanegal, Ecuador: Vriginia Nazarea-Rhoades and Robert Rhoades

10:00 BREAK

10:20 Emergence of ecocultural restoration in Victoria, British Columbia: B.R. Beckwith

10:40 Plant Husbandry and the Distribution of a Rare Sage: Kristin Huisinga

11:00 The Contribution of Traditional Resource Management by California Indians to Riparian Restoration: Michell L. Stevens

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

Friday Afternoon

Room220 Medicinal Plants and Systems of Curing

2:00 The Transmission of Entheogen-based Healing Practices from Indians to Afro-Mexicans and Hispanic-Mexicans in Central Mexico, 1658 to 1737: Bret Blosser

2:20 Endangered and At-Risk Medicinals of the Southwest: Tomas Enos

2:40 Puget Salish Access to Culturally-Significant Plants: Marja Eloheimo

Friday Afternoon

Lyceum Paleoethnobotany

2:00 The Palynology of a Wetland Agricultural System: Glenn Stuart

2:20 Damming Evidence; Phytolith Validaiton of Prehistoric Agricultural Use of Checkdam Features in Southwestern Colorado: Shawn K Collins

2:40 Landscapes of the Eye: Gail E. Wagner

3:00 The Ethnobotany of Ritual: The View from a D-shaped Kiva: Sandra Peacock and Severin Fowles

3:20 Sinagua Plant Use at Elden Pueblo: Andrea A. hunter, Karen A. Wright, and Colleen A. Crawford

Friday Afternoon

Exhibits Gallery Poster Session

2:00 Ethnobotanical Knowledge Variation in Missouri’s Little Dixie: Justin M. Nolan

2:30 Archaeobotanical Evidence of Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum, on the Southern Colorado Plateau: Karen A. Wright

3:00 The post fire population dynamics of Mountain Tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata Torrey (Solanaceae), at Mesa Verde National Park: William Litzinger, Lisa-Floyd Hanna, and David Hanna

3:30 Not Just Quinoa: Archaeobotanical Identification of Chenopods From Highland Bolivia: Maria C. Bruno