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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, Nancy J., 1947- editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 96.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnobotany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Benediction

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making

Section One: Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships to Plants and Territory in Canada

Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future

Nuučaaǹuł Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed

Tamarack and Tobacco

Xáxli’p Survival Territory: Colonialism, Industrial Land Use, and the Biocultural Sustainability of the Xáxli’p within the Southern Interior of British Columbia

Section Two: Historical Perspectives on Plant-People Relationships in Canada

Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations’ Land Use and Rights

Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island

A Place Called Pípsell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwépemc Law

Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites

Introduction

From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota

The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State

Tāne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law

Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks

Kīpuka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawai‘i

Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Responsibilities

Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance

Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It?

Tsilhqot’in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness

Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Regeneration and Resurgence

Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples

‘Passing It On’: Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education

On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation

Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts

Epilogue

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

978022800317

0-2280-0317-2

OCLC:

1129443219