North and Central Coast of BC, Canada

References: Deur and Turner 2005; Turner 2003, 2006; Turner and Clifton 2006; Turner and Thompson 2006

Deur, Douglas and Nancy J. Turner (editors). (2005). “Keeping it Living”: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, Seattle: University of Washington Press, and Vancouver: UBC Press.

Turner, Nancy J. (2003). The Ethnobotany of “Edible Seaweed” (Porphyra abbottiae Krishnamurthy and related species; Rhodophyta: Bangiales) and its use by First Nations on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany, 81(2), 283–293.

Turner, Nancy J.  (2006). “Those Women of Yesteryear”: Woman and Production of Edible Seaweed (Porphyra abbottiae) in Coastal British Columbia, Canada. Conference Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Ethnobotany  (ICEB 2005) “Ethnobotany: At the Junction of the Continents and Disciplines” edited by Z. Fusün Ertug. Istanbul, Turkey: Yeditepe University, Yayinlari, Pp. 499–505.

Turner, Nancy J. and Helen Clifton. (2006). “The Forest and the Seaweed”: Gitga’at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Community Survival. (chapter published in two books) Pp 153–178 in: Eating and Healing.  Traditional Food as Medicine. (2006) Andrea Pieroni and Lisa L. Price, editors. Haworth Press (USA) and pp. 65–86 in: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management (Charles Menzies, ed.), Lincoln: University of Nebraska.

Turner, N.J., and J.C. Thompson, eds.  (2006). Plants of the Gitga’at People. ‘Nwana’a lax Yuup. Hartley Bay, BC: Gitga’at Nation and Coasts Under Stress Research Project (R. Ommer, P.I.), Victoria, BC: Cortex Consulting.