Can a bird’s song announce that fruits are ripening? Can the blossoming of a flower signal the gathering time of another plant? For the Indigenous peoples of North America, these signs in nature carried vital knowledge that determined the calendar of life. When Indigenous communities living along the Pacific coast heard a particular bird's call, they weren't just welcoming the arrival of spring; that sound was also the herald of wild berries beginning to ripen in the forest. Similarly, the blooming of a specific tree could indicate that the time had come to gather plant materials for basketry. To some, these might sound like charming folklore about nature. Yet behind them lay long years of observation, a deep skill in recognizing the life cycles of species, and an understanding of their interrelationships. Today, we tend to view many things we encounter in nature as isolated events: A bird sings, a tree blossoms, a river rises... Yet all of these are parts of the same ecologic...
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