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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....
Author
Series
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage volume no. 18
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Language
English
Formats
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Language
English
Description
"An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food - and to support the reintroduction of wood bison, an ancient species well suited to expected habitat changes. First Nations people in Canada team with conservationists to protect land for...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This dissertation focuses on the North Fork Mono (or Nium ) Tribe's historiography and oral narratives about its land and water tenure. I begin with a recounting of my recent experiences in elementary school curriculum development about Native Americans and the environment and a discussion of the clash in worldviews that this work brought to the surface. Then, by drawing on secondary sources, on archival research into federal land records and anthropologists'...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This research study examines the Communal Forest Enterprise and environmental education in the Purépecha indigenous community of San Juan Nuevo, México. The Communal Forest Enterprise, also known as La Comunidad Indigena, was created in 1981 to establish control and sustainably develop over 18,000 hectares of communal forest lands for the benefit of the local community. The enterprise generates over 1400 jobs for community members. Additional...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health in several contemporary Coast Salish and Chinook communities in western Washington from 1805 to 2005. Suzanne Crawford O'Brien examines how these communities define what it means to be healthy, and how recent tribal community-based health programs have applied this understanding to their missions and activities. She also explores how contemporary...
Author
Series
New frontiers in historical ecology volume 4
Publisher
Left Coast Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English