Plants, people, and places : the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond / edited by Nancy J. Turner.

"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Turner, Nancy J., 1947- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 96.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : making a place for indigenous botanical knowledge and environmental values in land-use planning and decision making / Nancy J. Turner, Pamela Spalding, and Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa)
  • Living from the land : food security and food sovereignty today and into the future / Jeannette Armstrong
  • Nuučaan̓uł plants and habitats as reflected in oral traditions : since Raven and Thunderbird roamed / Marlene Atleo (ʔehʔeh nah tuu kwiss)
  • Tamarack and tobacco / Aaron Mills
  • Xáxli'p survival territory : colonialism, industrial land use, and the biocultural sustainability of the Xáxli'p within the southern interior of British Columbia / Arthur Adolph
  • Understanding the past for the future : archaeology, plants, and First Nations' land use and rights / Dana Lepofsky, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Darcy Mathews, and Spencer Greening
  • Preparing Eden : indigenous land use and European settlement on Southern Vancouver Island / John Sutton Lutz
  • A place called Pípsell : an indigenous cultural keystone place, mining, and Secwépemc law / Marianne Ignace and Chief Ronald E. Ignace
  • Traditional plant medicines and the protection of traditional harvesting sites / Letitia M. McCune and Alain Cuerrier
  • From traplines to pipelines : oil sands and the pollution of berries and sacred lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota / Linda Black Elk and Janelle Marie Baker
  • The legal application of ethnoecology : the Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish state / Lars Östlund, Ingela Bergman, Camilla Sandström, and Malin Brännström
  • Tāne Mahuta : the Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, his children, and the law / Jacinta Ruru
  • Cultivating the imagined wilderness : contested Native American plant gathering traditions in America's National Parks / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) and Justine E. James Jr
  • Kīpuka Kuleana : restoring reciprocity to coastal land tenure and resource use in Hawaiʻi / Monica Montgomery and Mehana Blaich Vaughan
  • Right relationships : legal and ethical context for indigenous peoples' land rights and responsibilities / Kelly Bannister
  • Ethnoecology and indigenous legal traditions in environmental governance / Deborah Curran and Val Napoleon
  • Indigenous environmental stewardship : do mechanisms of biodiversity conservation align with or undermine it? / Monica E. Mulrennan and Véronique Bussières
  • Tsilhqot'in Nation aboriginal title : ethnoecological and ethnobotanical evidence and the roles and obligations of the expert witness / David M. Robbins and Michael Bendle
  • Plants, habitats, and litigation for indigenous peoples in Canada / Stuart Rush, QC
  • Restorying indigenous landscapes : community restoration and resurgence / Jeff Corntassel
  • Partnerships of hope : how ethnoecology can support robust co-management agreements between public governments and indigenous peoples / Pamela Spalding
  • "Passing it on" : renewal of indigenous plant knowledge systems and indigenous approaches to education / Leigh Joseph (Styawat)
  • On resurgence and transformative reconciliation / James Tully
  • Retrospective and concluding thoughts / Nancy J. Turner with E. Richard Atleo (Umeek) and John Ralston Saul
  • Epilogue : native plants, indigenous societies, and the land in Canada's future / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa), Nancy J. Turner (Galitsimġa), and Kim Recalma-Clutesi(Oqwilowgwa)