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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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Main Author: Parry, Darren (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Utah. Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment. Annual Symposium
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.
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