Original instructions : indigenous teachings for a sustainable future / edited by Melissa K. Nelson

Object Details

Author

Nelson, Melissa K

Contents

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

Summary

"Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today's global crisis"--Provided by publisher.

For millennia the world's indigenous peoples have acted as guardians of the web of life for the next seven generations. They've successfully managed complex reciprocal relationships between biological and cultural diversity. Awareness of indigenous knowledge is reemerging at the eleventh hour to help avert global ecological and social collapse. Indigenous cultural wisdom shows us how to live in peace--with the earth and one another. Original Instructions evokes the rich indigenous storytelling tradition in this collection of presentations gathered from the annual Bioneers conference. It depicts how the world's native leaders and scholars are safeguarding the original instructions, reminding us about gratitude, kinship, and a reverence for community and creation. Included are more than 20 contemporary indigenous leaders--such as Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke, and John Trudell. These beautiful, wise voices remind us where hope lies.

2008

©2008

Type

Books

Physical description

xxiv, 359 pages ; 23 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Indigenous peoples--Ecology

Human ecology--Philosophy

Philosophy of nature

Record ID

siris_sil_927405

Metadata Usage (text)

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