Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond (Volume 96) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)

A powerful case for the essential role of plants and environments in recognizing Indigenous Peoples' land rights around the world. A powerful case for the essential role of plants and environments in recognizing Indigenous Peoples' land rights around the world. Cover Plants, People, and Places Title Copyright CONTENTS Tables and Figures Benediction: The Teachings of Chief Kwaxsistalla Adam Dick and the Atla’gimma (“Spirits of the Forest”) Dance Preface and Acknowledgments 1 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 Introduction 2 Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future 3 Nuučaan̓uł Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed 4 Tamarack and Tobacco 5 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 Introduction 6 Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations’ Land Use and Rights 7 Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island 8 A Place Called Pípsell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwépemc Law 9 Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites SECTION THREE – ETHNOECOLOGY AND THE LAW IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Introduction 10 From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota 11 The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State 12 Tāne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law 13 Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks 14 Kīpuka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawaiʻi SECTION FOUR – ETHNOECOLOGY, LAW, AND POLICY IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT Introduction 15 Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Responsibilities 16 Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance 17 Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It? 18 Tsilhqot’in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness 19 Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada SECTION FIVE – DRAWING STRENGTH AND INSPIRATION FROM PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND LANDS THROUGH JUSTICE, EQUITY, EDUCATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS Introduction 20 Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Regeneration and Resurgence 21 Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples 22 “Passing It On”: Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education 23 On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation 24 Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts Epilogue: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada’s Future Contributors Index "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."-- Provided by publisher "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"-- Fourni par l'éditeur 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.