Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Tables and Figures xiii
4. Benediction xvii
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xxv
6. Introduction: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making 3
7. Section One: Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships to Plants and Territory in Canada 33
8. Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future 36
9. Nuučaaǹuł Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed 51
10. Tamarack and Tobacco 65
11. Xáxli’p Survival Territory: Colonialism, Industrial Land Use, and the Biocultural Sustainability of the Xáxli’p within the Southern Interior of British Columbia 70
12. Section Two: Historical Perspectives on Plant-People Relationships in Canada 83
13. Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations’ Land Use and Rights 86
14. Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island 107
15. A Place Called Pípsell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwépemc Law 131
16. Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites 151
17. Introduction 169
18. From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota 173
19. The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State 188
20. Tāne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law 203
21. Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks 220
22. Kīpuka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawai‘i 238
23. Introduction 251
24. Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights and Responsibilities 254
25. Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance 269
26. Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It? 282
27. Tsilhqot’in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness 313
28. Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada 329
29. Introduction 347
30. Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Regeneration and Resurgence 350
31. Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples 366
32. ‘Passing It On’: Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education 386
33. On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation 402
34. Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts 419
35. Epilogue 436
36. Contributors 443
37. Index 459