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Author Carroll, Clint, 1980-

Title Roots of our renewal : ethnobotany and Cherokee environmental governance / Clint Carroll
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages)
Series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
First peoples (2010)
Contents Keepers of knowledge : Indigenous environmental governance -- Before removal : the political ecology of the early Cherokee state -- Shaping new homelands : landscapes of removal and renewal -- The "greening" of Oklahoma : state power and Cherokee resurgence after the Dust Bowl -- Indigenous ethnobotany : Cherokee medicine and the power of plant lore -- The spirit of this land : terrains of Cherokee governance -- Sovereign landscapes : spiritual, material, and political relationships to land
Summary "In Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, Carroll shows that the reconstituted Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi eventually cultivated a special connection to the new land--a connection that is reflected in its management of natural resources. Until now, scant attention has been paid to the interplay between tribal natural resource management programs and governance models. Carroll is particularly interested in Indigenous environmental governance along the continuum of resource-based and relationship-based practices and relates how the Cherokee Nation, while protecting tribal lands, is also incorporating associations with the nonhuman world. Carroll describes how the work of an elders' advisory group has been instrumental to this goal since its formation in 2008. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Carroll draws from his ethnographic observations of Cherokee government-community partnerships during the past ten years. He argues that Indigenous appropriations of modern state forms can articulate alternative ways of interacting with and "governing" the environment."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cherokee Indians -- Ethnobotany
Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
Political ecology -- Cherokee Nation
Environmental policy -- Cherokee Nation
Land use -- Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
HISTORY -- Native American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
Cherokee Indians -- Ethnobotany
Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government
Environmental policy
Land use
Political ecology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452944524
1452944520
9781452950709
1452950709