This article merely suggests that aboriginal people were modifying their environment to increase resources of value to them ("engineering the wetland environment to increase the yield of wapato"). This is an important idea since many westerners think aboriginal peoples merely lived off the land without managing it. However, it seems a bit exaggerated to claim that this is a perpetuation of the myth of the noble savage living in "complete harmony". Unlike this comment, the authors make no generalization of aboriginal vs non-aboriginal peoples.