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Clam Gardens

Indigenous people of the west coast of North America used a range of techniques and practices to maintain or increase the production of culturally important foods, including clams. These practices…

Tuttarep toy ninar pirka wa raka-an okay.

(Clam garden terraces are good and useful.) My editor was watching some wild travel programs and found along the way one about western Canada, & learned that many landscape features including rocky coasts are often made for specific purposes, like the above clam harvesting & salmon harnessing of their hatchplaces. Apparently, along with the sites mentioned inside, there are over 2,000 such sites found inside of those along with Oregon & even California.