Roots of our renewal : ethnobotany and Cherokee environmental governance

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Title
"Roots of our renewal : ethnobotany and Cherokee environmental governance"
Statement of Responsibility
Clint Carroll
Publisher
  • University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year
  • 2015
Book size
22 cm
Series Name / No
  • :pbk

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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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