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Roots of Our Renewal : Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Clint.
- Series:
- First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cherokee Indians--Ethnobotony.
- Cherokee Indians--Medicine.
- Cherokee Indians--Politics and government.
- Environmental policy--Cherokee Nation.
- Land use--Cherokee Nation.
- Political ecology--Cherokee Nation.
- Cherokee Indians--Ethnobotony--Cherokee Nation.
- Cherokee Indians.
- Cherokee Indians--Medicine--Cherokee Nation.
- Political ecology--Politics and government--Cherokee Nation.
- Political ecology.
- Environmental policy.
- Land use.
- Local Subjects:
- Cherokee Indians--Ethnobotony.
- Cherokee Indians--Medicine.
- Cherokee Indians--Politics and government.
- Environmental policy--Cherokee Nation.
- Land use--Cherokee Nation.
- Political ecology--Cherokee Nation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 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 land-a connection that is reflected in its management of natural resources.Until now, scant attention has been paid to the interplay between tri
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Note to the Reader; Preface; Introduction. Keepers of Knowledge: Indigenous Environmental Governance; 1. Before Removal: The Political Ecology of the Early Cherokee State; 2. Shaping New Homelands: Landscapes of Removal and Renewal; 3. The "Greening" of Oklahoma: State Power and Cherokee Resurgence after the Dust Bowl; 4. Indigenous Ethnobotany: Cherokee Medicine and the Power of Plant Lore; 5. The Spirit of This Land: Terrains of Cherokee Governance; Conclusion. Sovereign Landscapes: Spiritual, Material, and Political Relationships to Land; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes
- BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
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