Because This Land is Who We Are
Subtitle: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession
By: Chantelle Richmond, Brad Coombes, Renee Pualani Louis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781350247703; 9781350247666; 9781350247673; 9781350247680; 9781350247697
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Land tenure; Reclamation of land..; Traditional ecological knowledge; Land rights; Social discrimination & inequality
Description: Because This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai'i (Kanaka Maoli) and Aotearoa (Maori). The co-authors are all Indigenous scholars, community leaders and activists who are actively engaged in the movements underway in these locations, and able to describe the unique and common strategies of repossession practices taking place in each community.   This open access book celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing, relating to and honouring the land, and the authors' contributions emphasize the efforts taking place in their own Indigenous land. Through engagement with these varying cultural imperatives, the wider goal of Because This Land Is Who We Are is to broaden both theoretical and applied concepts of environmental repossession, and to empower any Indigenous community around the world which is struggling to assert its rights to land.  The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: For All Our Kin: A Relational Understanding of Environmental Responsibilities CHAPTER 2: The Practices and Praxis of Indigenous Environmental Repossession CHAPTER 3: Kukulu: Pillars of Mauna Kea Exhibit CHAPTER 4: Cultivating Boundary Crossers: Trespass Gardening in the Stonefields CHAPTER 5: Gathering for Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Conclusion: The Land is Who We Are References Author Biographies List of Contributors