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• ISBN: 9781591430797
• ISBN: 1591430798
• Physical Description: xxiv, 359 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Rochester, Vt. : Bear & Company, c2008.

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Preface : remembering the original instructions / Kenny Ausubel -- Introduction : lighting the sun of our future : how these teachings can provide illumination / Melissa K. Nelson -- Listening to natural law / Chief Oren Lyons -- First nations survival and the future of the Earth / Rebecca Adamson -- Acoma coexistence and continuance / Petuuche Gilbert -- Ethics from the land : traditional protocols and the maintenance of peace / Marlowe Sam -- Indigenous knowledge as the basis for our future / Priscilla Settee -- Clear thinking : a positive solitary view of nature ; The Iroquois confederacy / John Mohawk -- A democracy based on peace / Chief Oren Lyons -- An Okanagan worldview of society / Jeannette Armstrong -- Peace technologies from the San Bushmen of Africa / Megan Biesel, Kxao=Oma., and /'Angn!ao /'Un -- Where is the Holy Land? / Leslie Gray -- Restoring indigenous history and culture to nature / Dennis Martinez, Enrique Salmón, and Melissa K. Nelson -- Protecting water quality and religious freedom at the Isleta Pueblo / Verna Williamson-Teller -- The art of thriving in place / John Mohawk -- She is us : thought woman and the sustainability of worship / Paula Gunn Allen -- Ethiopian women : from passive resources to active citizens / Bogaletch Gebre -- Powerful like a river : reweaving the web of our lives in defense of environmental and reproductive justice / Katsi Cook -- From the first to the last bite : learning from the food knowledge of our ancestors / John Mohawk -- Re-indigenizing our bodies and minds through native foods / Mellisa K. Nelson -- Dancing for the Apus : Andean food and farming / Julio Valladolid Rivera -- On the importance of our connection to food / Jacquelyn Ross -- Protecting the culture and genetics of wild rice / Winona LaDuke -- Cultural change, climate change, and the future of civilization / John Mohawk -- Protecting the web of life : indigenous knowledge and biojustice / Tom Goldtooth -- Return of the ancient council ways : indigenous survival in Chiapas / Ohki Siminé Forest -- Front line of resistance : indigenous peoples and energy development / Clayton Thomas-Muller -- Speaking for the voiceless / Richard DeerTrack -- Re-indigenization defined / Greg Cajete, John Mohawk, and Julio Valladolid Rivera -- El poder de la palabra/the power of the word : toward a Nahuatl/Mestizo consciousness / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Mending the split-head society with trickster consciousness / Melissa K. Nelson -- Re-nativization in North and South America / Tirso Gonzales -- Taro roots run deep : Hawaiian restoration of sacred foods and communities / Mark Paikuli-Stride, Eric Enos, and Nalani Minton -- The power of being a human being / John Trudell.

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Indigenous peoples > Ecology.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Philosophy of nature.