Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental SustainabilityThis book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning

Making sense of her family

She was a child of mixed cultures and religions with an insatiable curiosity about how and why things work

Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected

Her work on Native languages began at age twelve

while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom

" —Luther Standing Bear

to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth

Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact

The literal translation of "Giga-waabamin

Curley argues that political struggles ultimately shape how we should understand coal

giving readers the tools to understand a bag's makeup and meaning

In describing this volume Harjo has said: "I believe that the word poet is synonymous with the word truth teller