British Columbia’s Hazelnut Forests Were Actually First Nations’ Forest Farms 7,000 Years Ago

 

New insights into the First Nations of British Columbia show how these resourceful people cultivated hazelnuts across hundreds of miles of their forest homes. The study comes as certain indigenous nations in Canada are attempting to assert land claims by arguing their ancestral use. Tribes such as the Gitxsan, Ts’msyen, and Nisga’a, have oral histories […]

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