Indigenous perspective to climate and environment /
The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not "untouched" or "wild" as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is super...
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| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not "untouched" or "wild" as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is superior to Indigenous wisdom can be a barrier to meaningful and lasting collaboration. We must work together if we are to heal the land that we have collectively sullied. |
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| Item Description: | "This lecture was originally delivered on March 16, 2023, at the 28th annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | v, 11 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781647691806 164769180X |