Description
Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous environmental and cultural heritage.
The Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development (INSTEAD) research program is a knowledge co-creation partnership of Indigenous communities, representative organizations, university researchers, and activist civil society organizations. The collective aims to tackle conceptual and practical challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and communities in the stewardship of their environmental and cultural heritage in diverse regions of the Americas.
This book presents several of INSTEAD’s founding Indigenous and academic partners to profile their diverse agendas and struggles. The intention is to bring together experience on diverse Indigenous territories, nurturing a sustained alliance of partners and researchers committed to the co-production of comparative knowledge, strategy formation, and policy action. Drawing on local knowledge experts and community leaders in collaboration with researchers dedicated to each partner territory, the book delves into the circumstances of each locale, critically comparing institutional and political contexts and assessing the creative strategies at play.
Emphasis is placed on the co-creation of knowledge toward the goals and engagements of INSTEAD’s Indigenous partners, influenced by a legacy of thinking about Indigenous methodologies and research partnerships. Throughout, the book focuses on the challenges of protecting the integrity and diversity of socioecological communities within alternative models of development.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development
2. Free to Decide Their Own Destiny: The Ngäbé and the Buglé of the Isthmus of Panama and
Their Struggle for Self-Determination
3. Recovering Yrmo: The Yshir Nation’s Life Project
4. Responding to Environmental Decline in Eastern James Bay: Indigenous Knowledge and
Transdisciplinary Research
5. Intangible Heritage, Forest Conservation, and Identity: A Complex Challenge for Totonac
Livelihood Continuity
6. Between Development and Buen Vivir (“Living Well”): The Struggles of the Mapuche in
Defence of Their Environmental and Cultural Heritage
7. “La Gente Fantasma”: Relational Sustainability and Mining in Guatemala
8. Miyopimaatisowin, Living a Good Life in Bigstone Cree Nation Territory: Consultation in
the Canadian Boreal Forest
9. Mapping the Aspirations and Challenges of the Hul'q'umi'num' Peoples
10. Forests, Governance, and the Struggle for Political Autonomy: Perspectives from the Cree
First Nation of Waswanipi
11. “We Kicked Your Ass at CP146!”: Visions for Living and Protecting the Tsal'alhmec
St'át'ímc Way of Life
12. Git lax m’oon: Indigenizing Research and Natural Resource Management on the Northwest
Coast of Canada
13. Sumaq Kawsay and Biocultural Conservation: The Experience of the Potato Park (Cusco,
Peru)
14. “How Are We Going to Keep People Informed?”: IsumaTV, Digital Indigenous
Democracy, and Inuit Language Media Activism
15. Conclusion
Index
This book contains 6 b&w illustrations, 36 b&w maps, 2 b&w figures, 5 b&w tables.