On today’s episode Jessica hosts Natasha Myhal, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder with an area of focus in Geography. Through the lens of Natasha’s academic and personal journey, Natasha and Jessica discuss community based research, traditional ecological knowledge/gikendaasowin (knowledge in Ojibwe), and ethnobotany. They further discuss the challenges of working across disciplines and how language shapes the way we understand and interact with the land. Of course, they also discuss her dissertation research which uses community based approaches to look at Little River Band of Ottawa Indians tribal natural resource management strategies that combine traditional Anishinaabe worldviews with existing management policies.
Links
The politics of TEK- Paul Nadasdy
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
Carroll, Clint. Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance. First Peoples : New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015
Geniusz, Wendy Makoons. Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings. Syracuse University Press, 2009
Pasternak, Shiri. Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Natasha
natasha.myhal@colorado.edu
@natasha_kwe
Contact
Jessica
Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org
@livingheritageA
@LivingHeritageResearchCouncil
Lyle
Lyle.Balenquah@gmail.com
Affiliates
Wildnote
TeePublic
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