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Asserting native resilience : Pacific rim indigenous nations face the climate crisis / edited by Zoltán Grossman and Alan Parker ; foreword by Billy Frank, Jr.
Indigenous nations are on the front line of the climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing twenty-first century responses to climate change that serve as a model for Natives and non-Native communities alike.
Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Indigenous peoples around the Pacific Rim have already been deeply affected by droughts, flooding, reduced glaciers and snowmelts, seasonal shifts in winds and storms, and the northward movement of species on the land and in the ocean. Using tools of resilience, Native peoples are creating defenses to strengthen their communities, mitigate losses, and adapt where possible.
Asserting Native Resilience presents a rich variety of perspectives on Indigenous responses to the climate crisis, reflecting the voices of more than twenty contributors, including tribal leaders, scientists, scholars, and activists from the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Alaska, and Aotearoa / New Zealand, and beyond. Also included is a resource directory of Indigenous governments, NGOs, and communities and a community organizing booklet for use by Northwest tribes.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780870716638
- ISBN: 0870716638
- ISBN: 9780870716645
- ISBN: 0870716646
- Physical Description: 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Corvalis, OR : Oregon State University Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1. Cultural perspectives: Land grab on a global scale / Dennis Martinez -- Indigenous declarations on the climate crisis. Anchorage Declaration of Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change ; International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change policy paper ; Mystic Lake Declaration of Native Peoples/Native Homelands II Workshop 2009 ; Native Peoples/Native Homelands 1998 North American indigenous concerns -- Alaska : testimony from the front lines / Mike Williams -- Sharing one skin / Jeannette Armstrong -- Where words touch the earth : tribal students produce a climate change video on the Coast Salish moons / Greg Mahle, Lexie Tom -- Watching for the signs / Willie Charlie -- Different ways of looking at things / Larry Merculieff -- Part 2. Effects of the climate crisis: Climate threats to Pacific Northwest tribes and the great ecological removal : keeping traditions alive / Terry Williams, Preston Hardison -- Climate change in the Quileute and Hoh Nations of coastal Washington / Chelsie Papiez -- Maori perspectives on climate change / Ata Brett Stephenson -- Impacts of global climate change / Brad Burnham -- Effects of climate change on women's and children's health / Debra McNutt -- Part 3. Current responses: Indigenous responses to the international climate change framework / Zoltán Grossman -- On our own : adapting to climate change / Rudolph C. Rÿser -- Swinomish climate change initiative -- Pulling together : honorable community engagement / Shelly Vendiola -- Native renewable energy. Groups press for tribe-friendly renewable energy resources ; A methane to their madness : tribes and farmers come together -- over cow manure ; Finding common ground : Qualco biogas project brings together farmers, Natives while helping the salmon -- Part 4. Possible paths: Kaua e mangere = Do not be idle : Maori responses in a time of climate change / Ata Brett Stephenson -- Potential paths for Native Nations / Laural Ballew, Renée Klosterman -- No longer the "miner's canary" : Indigenous Nations' responses to climate change / Zoltán Grossman -- Recommendations to Indigenous government leadership / Alan Parker -- Part 5. Native climate change resources / contributors' biographies: Native climate change resources / Jamie Bown, Zoltán Grossman -- Northwest tribes : Meeting the challenge of climate change / edited by Debra McNutt.
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- Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Pacific Area.
Human beings > Effect of climate on > Pacific Area.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Pacific Area.
Climatic changes > Pacific Area.
Pacific Area > Environmental conditions.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Pacific Area. - Genre:
- Māori.
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GF 798 .A87 2012 | 280218 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | GF 798 .A87 2012 | 285412 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |