ABSTRACT

Introduction North America’s portion of the vast Pacific rim arcs from the Aleutian Islands to the coast of Mexico (Figure 13.1). The Alaskan portion is properly part of the Arctic and Subarctic regions, and dealt with in Chapter 14. Most of the Mexican and Central American

You stay. I go. Ishi, March 25, 1916

portions are properly covered in Chapters 7 and 8. What lies between is the long West Coast from the Alaskan panhandle to Baja California, a long diverse maritime environment that produced some of North America’s most unusual cultures.