Roots of our renewal : ethnobotany and Cherokee environmental governance
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Roots of our renewal : ethnobotany and Cherokee environmental governance
(First peoples)
University of Minnesota Press, 2015
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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 tribal natural resource management programs and governance models. Carroll is particularly interested in indigenous environmental governance along the continuum of resource-based and relationship-based practices and relates how the Cherokee Nation, while protecting tribal lands, is also incorporating associations with the nonhuman world. Carroll describes how the work of an elders' advisory group has been instru
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index
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- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
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