Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance

Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental GovernanceIn Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, Carroll shows that the reconstituted Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi eventually cultivated a special connection to the new

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Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire

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From short fiction to as-told-to narratives

Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind

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