For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples--as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials--and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language. While the First Peoples of Canada and other parts of the world have developed deep cultural understandings of plants and their environments, this knowledge is often underrecognized in debates about land rights and title, reconciliation, treaty negotiations, and traditional territories. Plants, People, and Places argues that the time is long past due to recognize and accommodate Indigenous Peoples' relationships with plants and their ecosystems. Essays in this volume, by leading voices in philosophy, Indigenous law, and environmental sustainability, consider the critical importance of botanical and ecological knowledge to land rights and related legal and government policy, planning, and decision making in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. Analyzing specific cases in which Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights to the environment have been denied or restricted, this collection promotes future prosperity through more effective and just recognition of the historical use of and care for plants in Indigenous cultures. A timely book featuring Indigenous perspectives on reconciliation, environmental sustainability, and pathways toward ethnoecological restoration, Plants, People, and Places reveals how much there is to learn from the history of human relationships with nature.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 581.6/3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780228003175 0228001838
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- GN476.73
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- P63 2020eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxxii, 480 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00240867 (OCoLC)1129443219 (CaOOCEL)450162
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Plants, People, and Places 2
- Title 8
- Copyright 9
- CONTENTS 10
- Tables and Figures 14
- Benediction: The Teachings of Chief Kwaxsistalla Adam Dick and the Atla’gimma (“Spirits of the Forest”) Dance 18
- Preface and Acknowledgments 26
- 1 Introduction: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making 36
- SECTION ONE – INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RELATIONSHIPS TO PLANTS AND TERRITORY IN CANADA 66
- Introduction 66
- 2 Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future 69
- 3 Nuučaan̓uł Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed 84
- 4 Tamarack and Tobacco 98
- 5 Xáxli’p Survival Territory: Colonialism, Industrial Land Use, and the Biocultural Sustainability of the Xáxli’p within the Southern Interior of British Columbia 103
- SECTION TWO – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLANT - PEOPLE RELATIONSHIPS IN CANADA 116
- Introduction 116
- 6 Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations’ Land Use and Rights 119
- 7 Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island 140
- 8 A Place Called Pípsell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwépemc Law 164
- 9 Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites 184
- SECTION THREE – ETHNOECOLOGY AND THE LAW IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA 202
- Introduction 202
- 10 From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota 206
- 11 The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State 221
- 12 Tāne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law 236
- 13 Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks 253
- 14 Kīpuka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawaiʻi 271
- SECTION FOUR – ETHNOECOLOGY, LAW, AND POLICY IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT 284
- Introduction 284
- 15 Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Responsibilities 287
- 16 Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance 302
- 17 Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It? 315
- 18 Tsilhqot’in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness 346
- 19 Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada 362
- SECTION FIVE – DRAWING STRENGTH AND INSPIRATION FROM PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND LANDS THROUGH JUSTICE, EQUITY, EDUCATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS 380
- Introduction 380
- 20 Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Regeneration and Resurgence 383
- 21 Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples 399
- 22 “Passing It On”: Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education 419
- 23 On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation 435
- 24 Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts 452
- Epilogue: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada’s Future 469
- Contributors 476
- Index 492