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Dunmire, William Werden was born on February 24, 1930 in Alameda, California, United States. Son of Samuel P. Dunmire and Margaret L. (Dickinson) Dunmire.
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This book emphasizes prehistoric uses of plants in the Four Corners area, focusing on Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins, Hovenweep, and other major sites of the region once occupied by the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Apache peoples. Dunmire and Tierney are able to eloquently illustrate the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among Native peoples and how ancient traditional uses of these plants inform contemporary uses today. Through vignettes of background information drawn from lore and cultural traditions and interviews with tribal elders, Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners describes uses for edible, medicinal, and dye plants, as well as plants used for making baskets, tools, and shelters. Complementing these essays are profiles of fifty new trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and grasses common to traditional Native America.
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When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homeland—wheat, melons, grapes, vegetables, and every kind of Mediterranean fruit. Missionaries and colonists introduced these plants to the native peoples of Mexico and the American Southwest, where they became staple crops alongside the corn, beans, and squash that had traditionally sustained the original Americans. This intermingling of Old and New World plants and foods was one of the most significant fusions in the history of international cuisine and gave rise to many of the foods that we so enjoy today. Gardens of New Spain tells the fascinating story of the diffusion of plants, gardens, agriculture, and cuisine from late medieval Spain to the colonial frontier of Hispanic America. Beginning in the Old World, William Dunmire describes how Spain came to adopt plants and their foods from the Fertile Crescent, Asia, and Africa. Crossing the Atlantic, he first examines the agricultural scene of Pre-Columbian Mexico and the Southwest. Then he traces the spread of plants and foods introduced from the Mediterranean to Spain's settlements in Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. In lively prose, Dunmire tells stories of the settlers, missionaries, and natives who blended their growing and eating practices into regional plantways and cuisines that live on today in every corner of America.
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( A trail-guide to the traditional uses of wild plants in...)
A trail-guide to the traditional uses of wild plants in the Pueblo world. The homelands of the Pueblo people, New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau and middle Rio Grande Valley, features a diverse plant community that is virtually unrivaled in western North America. The homelands of the Pueblo people--New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau and middle Rio Grande Valley--are home as well to an abundantly diverse plant community that is virtually unrivaled in western North America. Plant biologist and former U.S. Park Service ecologist Dunmire and botanist/anthropologist Tierney have written a book that combines a high degree of scholarship with a delightfully accessible trail-guide approach to the traditional uses of wild plants in the Pueblo world. This is an important book about the region's plant life and its vital interplay with cultures. Its sturdy laminated paper cover and cloth spine provide ideal backpack durability but will equally satisfy the armchair naturalist and weekend anthropology enthusiast. Color landscape photographs and individual line drawings of sixty profiled plants blend to create a book that is visually rich and absorbing while educational and useful.
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Dunmire, William Werden was born on February 24, 1930 in Alameda, California, United States. Son of Samuel P. Dunmire and Margaret L. (Dickinson) Dunmire.
Bachelor, University of California, 1954; Master of Arts, University of California, 1957.
Chief park naturalist, National Park Svc., Badlands National Monument, South Dakot, 1961-1963; chief park naturalist, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, 1963-1966; chief park naturalist, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1968-1972; chief interpretation, National Park Svc., Washington, 1973-1977; superintendent, Coulee Dam NRA, Washington, 1977-1981; superintendent, Carlsbad Caverns/Guadalupe Mountains National Parks, New Mexico, 1981-1985; New Mexico public lands coordinator, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Fe, 1985-1992; curatorial associate, Museum Southwestern Biology, U. New Mexico, since 1992; adjunct naturalist, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, since 1997; associate in biology, U. New Mexico, 1998.
( This book emphasizes prehistoric uses of plants in the ...)
( When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the l...)
( A trail-guide to the traditional uses of wild plants in...)
Board of directors United Way, Carlsbad, 1981-1984, division chairman, 1983-1984. Served to corporal United States Army, 1954-1956. Member Sierra Club, Wilderness Society M C.
Married Marjorie S. Schoder, June 14, 1954 (divorced 1972). Children: Glenn E., Peter P. Married Evangeline L. Blinn, October 17, 1972.