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- Title
Maliseet Cultivation and Climatic Resilience on the Wəlastəkw/St. John River During the Little Ice Age.
- Authors
HALL, JASON
- Abstract
This article examines how Maliseets extended maize cultivation in the Americas northeastward to the Wdlastokw (St. John River) using Indigenous cultivation techniques and knowledge of riverine microclimates during the Little Ice Age, a time when many peoples in the Northern Hemisphere abandoned cultivation. It also suggests that agriculture in New Brunswick began as an Indigenous complex, and that the cultivation work of Indigenous people prepared some of the field and town sites later used by Acadian and British colonial farmers.
- Subjects
SAINT John River Valley (Me. &; N.B.); MAINE; CANADA; MALECITE (North American people); CORN farming; LITTLE Ice Age; INNOVATIONS in corn technology; AGRICULTURE; HISTORY
- Publication
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d'histoire de la région Atlantique, 2015, Vol 44, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0044-5851
- Publication type
Article