Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management

✍ Scribed by Charles R. Menzies

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities. Of special interest is the complex relationship between indigenous ecological practices and other ways of interacting with the environment, particularly regional and national programs of natural resource management.Focusing primarily on the northwest coast of North America, scholars look at the challenges and opportunities confronting the local practice of indigenous ecological knowledge in a range of communities, including the Tsimshian, the Nisga’a, the Tlingit, the Gitksan, the Kwagult, the Sto:lo, and the northern Dene in the Yukon. The experts consider how traditional knowledge is taught and learned and address the cultural importance of different subsistence practices using natural elements such as seaweed (Gitga’a), pine mushrooms (Tsimshian), and salmon (Tlingit). Several contributors discuss the extent to which national and regional programs of resource management need to include models of TEK in their planning and execution.This volume highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world and underscores the need to acknowledge and honor the ways that indigenous peoples have done so for generations.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
I. Indigenous Practices and Natural Resources......Page 26
1. Tidal Pulse Fishing......Page 28
2. As It Was in the Past......Page 54
3. The Forest and the Seaweed......Page 72
4. Ecological Knowledge, Subsistence, and Livelihood Practices......Page 94
II. Local Knowledge and Contemporary Resource Managements......Page 112
5. Historicizing Indigenous Knowledge......Page 114
6. The Case of the Missing Sheep......Page 134
7. Local Knowledge, Multiple Livelihoods, and the Use of Natural and Social Resources in North Carolina......Page 160
8. Integrating Fishers' Knowledge into Fisheries Science and Management......Page 182
III. Learning from Local Ecological Knowledge......Page 200
9. Honoring Aboriginal Science Knolwedge and Wisdom in an Environmental Education Graduate Program......Page 202
10. Traditional Wisdom as Practiced and Transmitted in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada......Page 228
Afterword......Page 244
References......Page 250
List of Contributors......Page 268
Index......Page 272