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Author
Series
Publisher
7th Generation/Native Voices
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
Presents stories of courage, determination, and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet and describes how eleven Native people work to save our environment.
Author
Publisher
World Wisdom
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
"Through carefully chosen stories from the olden days and art that meticulously reflects traditional designs and colors, Goble provides wonderful insights into the spiritual life of the Plains Indians. His intimate knowledge of their world transports the reader into a vision of the sacred beauty and wisdom that defined traditional Native America"--Amazon.com.
Series
Canadian history and environment volume Number 7
Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Series
Advances in economic botany volume 15
Publisher
New York Botanical Garden Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Amid a global water security crisis exacerbated by climate change and biodiversity loss, this research explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) provide elegant solutions for recentering nature in 21st century global water policy. This research posits that the NBS concept is not new. It has been implemented by Indigenous Peoples as a form of water policy through Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) for centuries. NBS have only recently...
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Tibetans preserved whole mountains as sacred sites on which it was forbidden to cut trees or kill animals. The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we creatively and urgently adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world." "Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management....