D Deur
Biographic Data
| ID | 13932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Deur |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Deur |
| SIGNATURE | DEUR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3844-1050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unbalanced or Absent
Unbalanced or absent Indigenous representation in interpretive materials at government administered heritage sites in settler colonial contexts can create contention and perpetuate a misinformed or one-dimensional visitor experience and historical narrative. This research therefore examines representation in interpretive materials accessible in 2019 at heritage sites with Indigenous ancestral connections in settler-colonial contexts. This study u…
Russian views of the unknown coast
Early-nineteenth century Russian accounts of the coastline between Alaska and Fort Ross are rare. This article helps fill this gap, providing diary accounts by Russian American Company employee, Afanasy Shvetsov, of two joint Russian-American sea otter hunting trips along the Oregon and northern California coasts in 1808-09. Recently recovered and translated, these accounts aptly describe landscapes and biota, as well as Russian, American, and co…
Looking back, looking forward
Fire, native ecological knowledge, and the enduring anthropogenic landscapes of Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a place with rich and enduring traditions of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, manifesting in specific management practices that, in turn, leave discernible imprints upon the natural landscape. Historically, the Native American inhabitants of Yosemite Valley have employed a variety of techniques that materially enhance the availability of culturally preferred plant communities. This chapter identifies specific techniques that ap…
“Their Markers as they Go”
The Inland Dena’ina, an Athabaskan people of south-central Alaska, produce and value Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) in myriad ways. Ethnographic interviews and field visits conducted with Inland Dena’ina residents of the village of Nondalton, Alaska, reveal the centrality of CMTs in the creation and valuation of an Indigenous cultural landscape. CMTs serve as waypoints along trails, as Dena’ina people travel across vast distances to hunt wide-r…
Views Across the Pacific
From 1565 to 1815, Manila galleons such as the Santo Cristo de Burgos — the ship now thought to be the seventeenth century “Beeswax Wreck” that sank or ran aground near Nehalem Spit in Oregon — followed a 12,000-mile route from the Philippines through the stormy North Pacific, sometimes passing parallel to what is now the north Oregon coast, before reaching their destination in Acapulco, Mexico. The galleons were a central part of Spain's complex…
Cultivation of Salmon and other Marine Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America
Introduction to the Special Section on Marine Cultivation among Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast
"Kwakwaka'wakw "Clam Gardens
The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America actively managed natural resources in diverse ways to enhance their productivity and proximity. Among those practices that have escaped the attention of anthropologists until recently is the traditional management of intertidal clam beds, which Northwest Coast peoples have enhanced through techniques such as selective harvests, the removal of shells and other debris, and the mechanica…
“Up On the Mountain”
The Pacific Coastal Mountains of western North America have immense ethnobotanical significance. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have journeyed from permanent settlements in lowland regions to upland sites in order to harvest and process a range of plant resources –foods, materials and medicines– as well as to hunt and fish, and undertake spiritual activities. Two culturally significant montane areas, widely separated geographically, ar…
“A Caretaker Responsibility”
Conventionally, the Klamath and Modoc Indians of south-central Oregon and northeastern California are depicted as hunter-gatherers, who took no active role in the management of plant communities. In the course of a multi-year ethnographic effort, however, tribal elders have identified a complex of interrelated plant management practices that are consistent with contemporary definitions of plant cultivation. These include the management of black h…
Ginseng Dreams
Book Review| October 01 2008 Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant. Kristin Johannsen. Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 550–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.550 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas Deur; Ginseng Dr…
American Indian Geography
Contemporary geographical research concerning North America’s native peoples is most conspicuous for its remarkably diverse set of subjects, methods, and epistemological stances. Indeed, it would be hard to find another AAG specialty group whose members do research in as many corners of the natural and social sciences and humanities. Some perspectives developed quite recently, while others emanate from a century of prior research by geographers, …
Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast
Conventional wisdom suggests that the peoples of the Northwest Coast did not cultivate plants prior to European contact. Considerable evidence suggests the contrary, however, particularly the well-documented practice of estuarine root gardening among the Kwakwaka'wakw and other indigenous peoples of the region. These gardens were maintained through transplanting, weeding, selective harvesting, soil modifications, and the production of mounds or l…
Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuit in the United States and Canada
The indigenous cultures and communities of North America are studied in many academic disciplines, geography among them. The number of geographers who work in this area is small compared to the figures that emerge from such departments as anthropology, history, or literature, mainly because geography itself is a small discipline.1 A surprisingly wide range of topics, methods, Robert Rundstrom is associate professor in the Department of Geography …
The Heiltsuks
The Rain Forests of Home
The Rain Forests of Home brings together a diverse array of thinkers - conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others - to present a multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural and social science perspectives, the book provides readers with a valuable understanding of the region's natural and human history, al…
The Organic Machine
The Pacific Raincoast
Journal Article The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778–1900 Get access The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778–1900. By Bunting Robert. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Chinook Jargon Placenames as Points of Mutual Reference
Chinook Jargon, a pre-historic trade language in northwestern North America, became the primary means of communication between native and white speakers during European exploration and settlement in this region. At this time, many descriptive names taken from Chinook Jargon were assigned to landscape features. Some placenames persist as artifacts of this exchange; assessed in the light of historical and ethnographic sources, they illuminate the c…
Grand Coulee
Journal Article Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream Get access Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream. By Pitzer Paul C.. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994. xv + 504 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, P…
"Kwakwaka'wakw "Clam Gardens
The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America actively managed natural resources in diverse ways to enhance their productivity and proximity. Among those practices that have escaped the attention of anthropologists until recently is the traditional management of intertidal clam beds, which Northwest Coast peoples have enhanced through techniques such as selective harvests, the removal of shells and other debris, and the mechanica…
Cultivation of Salmon and other Marine Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America
The Rain Forests of Home
The Rain Forests of Home brings together a diverse array of thinkers - conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others - to present a multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural and social science perspectives, the book provides readers with a valuable understanding of the region's natural and human history, al…
Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast
Conventional wisdom suggests that the peoples of the Northwest Coast did not cultivate plants prior to European contact. Considerable evidence suggests the contrary, however, particularly the well-documented practice of estuarine root gardening among the Kwakwaka'wakw and other indigenous peoples of the region. These gardens were maintained through transplanting, weeding, selective harvesting, soil modifications, and the production of mounds or l…
Introduction to the Special Section on Marine Cultivation among Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast
The Heiltsuks
Chinook Jargon Placenames as Points of Mutual Reference
Chinook Jargon, a pre-historic trade language in northwestern North America, became the primary means of communication between native and white speakers during European exploration and settlement in this region. At this time, many descriptive names taken from Chinook Jargon were assigned to landscape features. Some placenames persist as artifacts of this exchange; assessed in the light of historical and ethnographic sources, they illuminate the c…
Looking back, looking forward
Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuit in the United States and Canada
The indigenous cultures and communities of North America are studied in many academic disciplines, geography among them. The number of geographers who work in this area is small compared to the figures that emerge from such departments as anthropology, history, or literature, mainly because geography itself is a small discipline.1 A surprisingly wide range of topics, methods, Robert Rundstrom is associate professor in the Department of Geography …
Chinook Jargon Placenames as Points of Mutual Reference
Chinook Jargon, a pre-historic trade language in northwestern North America, became the primary means of communication between native and white speakers during European exploration and settlement in this region. At this time, many descriptive names taken from Chinook Jargon were assigned to landscape features. Some placenames persist as artifacts of this exchange; assessed in the light of historical and ethnographic sources, they illuminate the c…
Grand Coulee
Journal Article Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream Get access Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream. By Pitzer Paul C.. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994. xv + 504 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, P…
The Organic Machine
The Pacific Raincoast
Journal Article The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778–1900 Get access The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778–1900. By Bunting Robert. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
The Rain Forests of Home
The Rain Forests of Home brings together a diverse array of thinkers - conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others - to present a multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural and social science perspectives, the book provides readers with a valuable understanding of the region's natural and human history, al…
The Heiltsuks
Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuit in the United States and Canada
The indigenous cultures and communities of North America are studied in many academic disciplines, geography among them. The number of geographers who work in this area is small compared to the figures that emerge from such departments as anthropology, history, or literature, mainly because geography itself is a small discipline.1 A surprisingly wide range of topics, methods, Robert Rundstrom is associate professor in the Department of Geography …
Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast
Conventional wisdom suggests that the peoples of the Northwest Coast did not cultivate plants prior to European contact. Considerable evidence suggests the contrary, however, particularly the well-documented practice of estuarine root gardening among the Kwakwaka'wakw and other indigenous peoples of the region. These gardens were maintained through transplanting, weeding, selective harvesting, soil modifications, and the production of mounds or l…
American Indian Geography
Contemporary geographical research concerning North America’s native peoples is most conspicuous for its remarkably diverse set of subjects, methods, and epistemological stances. Indeed, it would be hard to find another AAG specialty group whose members do research in as many corners of the natural and social sciences and humanities. Some perspectives developed quite recently, while others emanate from a century of prior research by geographers, …
Ginseng Dreams
Book Review| October 01 2008 Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant. Kristin Johannsen. Douglas Deur Douglas Deur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 550–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.550 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Douglas Deur; Ginseng Dr…
“A Caretaker Responsibility”
Conventionally, the Klamath and Modoc Indians of south-central Oregon and northeastern California are depicted as hunter-gatherers, who took no active role in the management of plant communities. In the course of a multi-year ethnographic effort, however, tribal elders have identified a complex of interrelated plant management practices that are consistent with contemporary definitions of plant cultivation. These include the management of black h…
“Up On the Mountain”
The Pacific Coastal Mountains of western North America have immense ethnobotanical significance. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have journeyed from permanent settlements in lowland regions to upland sites in order to harvest and process a range of plant resources –foods, materials and medicines– as well as to hunt and fish, and undertake spiritual activities. Two culturally significant montane areas, widely separated geographically, ar…
Cultivation of Salmon and other Marine Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America
Introduction to the Special Section on Marine Cultivation among Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast
"Kwakwaka'wakw "Clam Gardens
The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America actively managed natural resources in diverse ways to enhance their productivity and proximity. Among those practices that have escaped the attention of anthropologists until recently is the traditional management of intertidal clam beds, which Northwest Coast peoples have enhanced through techniques such as selective harvests, the removal of shells and other debris, and the mechanica…
Views Across the Pacific
From 1565 to 1815, Manila galleons such as the Santo Cristo de Burgos — the ship now thought to be the seventeenth century “Beeswax Wreck” that sank or ran aground near Nehalem Spit in Oregon — followed a 12,000-mile route from the Philippines through the stormy North Pacific, sometimes passing parallel to what is now the north Oregon coast, before reaching their destination in Acapulco, Mexico. The galleons were a central part of Spain's complex…
Fire, native ecological knowledge, and the enduring anthropogenic landscapes of Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a place with rich and enduring traditions of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, manifesting in specific management practices that, in turn, leave discernible imprints upon the natural landscape. Historically, the Native American inhabitants of Yosemite Valley have employed a variety of techniques that materially enhance the availability of culturally preferred plant communities. This chapter identifies specific techniques that ap…
“Their Markers as they Go”
The Inland Dena’ina, an Athabaskan people of south-central Alaska, produce and value Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) in myriad ways. Ethnographic interviews and field visits conducted with Inland Dena’ina residents of the village of Nondalton, Alaska, reveal the centrality of CMTs in the creation and valuation of an Indigenous cultural landscape. CMTs serve as waypoints along trails, as Dena’ina people travel across vast distances to hunt wide-r…
Looking back, looking forward
Russian views of the unknown coast
Early-nineteenth century Russian accounts of the coastline between Alaska and Fort Ross are rare. This article helps fill this gap, providing diary accounts by Russian American Company employee, Afanasy Shvetsov, of two joint Russian-American sea otter hunting trips along the Oregon and northern California coasts in 1808-09. Recently recovered and translated, these accounts aptly describe landscapes and biota, as well as Russian, American, and co…
Unbalanced or Absent
Unbalanced or absent Indigenous representation in interpretive materials at government administered heritage sites in settler colonial contexts can create contention and perpetuate a misinformed or one-dimensional visitor experience and historical narrative. This research therefore examines representation in interpretive materials accessible in 2019 at heritage sites with Indigenous ancestral connections in settler-colonial contexts. This study u…
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