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Scholars are increasingly exploring the communication and preservation of ecological knowledge through Indigenous songs (e.g., Kazakh songs about water and foraging quality and those of the O'odham people about desert plants). In one study, ethnobiologist Dana Lepofsky et al. received insight from Kwaxsistalla Wathl'thla, a song keeper for the Kwakwaka'wakw people in Canada, into songs referencing the people's use of terraced gardens in intertidal zones along the Pacific Northwest coast for the cultivation of clams for consumption. Archaeological evidence of significant increases in clam size and abundance in that area concurrent with the documented past implementation of the method described in the songs supports the conclusion that
Which choice most logically completes the text?
non-Indigenous people around the Pacific Northwest coast adopted the practice developed by the Kwakwaka'wakw people after observing its efficacy.
A
the practice used by ancestors of modern Kwakwaka'wakw people not only effectively maintained a food source but also promoted its robustness.
B
there is greater corroboration in the archaeological record of ecological practices described in Kwakwaka'wakw songs than of those described in Kazakh and O'odham songs.
C
although contemporary Kwakwaka wakw people have a deep understanding of and appreciation for the fishing and farming practices used by their ancestors, they no longer implement those methods.
D