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Acknowledgments | p. xv |
About Bioneers | p. xvii |
Bioneers and Editor's Statement on Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights | p. xix |
Preface: Remembering the Original Instructions | p. xxi |
Introduction: Lighting the Sun of Our Future-How These Teachings Can Provide Illumination | p. 1 |
Uncovering the Eco-Spiritual Values of the Original Instructions | |
Listening to Natural Law | p. 22 |
First Nations Survival and the Future of the Earth | p. 27 |
Acoma Coexistence and Continuance | p. 36 |
Ethics from the Land: Traditional Protocols and the Maintenance of Peace | p. 39 |
Indigenous Knowledge as the Basis for Our Future | p. 42 |
Clear Thinking: A Positive Solitary View of Nature | p. 48 |
Indigenous Democracies | |
The Iroquois Confederacy | p. 54 |
A Democracy Based on Peace | p. 59 |
An Okanagan Worldview of Society | p. 66 |
Peace Technologies from the San Bushmen of Africa | p. 75 |
The Art and Science of Kinship | |
Where Is the Holy Land? | p. 86 |
Restoring Indigenous History and Culture to Nature | p. 88 |
Protecting Water Quality and Religious Freedom at the Isleta Pueblo | p. 116 |
The Art of Thriving in Place | p. 126 |
Indigenous Feminine Power: in Honor of Sky Woman | |
She Is Us: Thought Woman and the Sustainability of Worship | p. 138 |
Ethiopian Women: From Passive Resources to Active Citizens | p. 145 |
Powerful Like a River: Reweaving the Web of Our Lives in Defense of Environmental and Reproductive Justice | p. 154 |
You Are Where You Eat: Native Foods and Traditional Agriculture | |
From the First to the Last Bite: Learning from the Food Knowledge of Our Ancestors | p. 170 |
Re-Indigenizing Our Bodies and Minds through Native Foods | p. 180 |
Dancing for the Apus: Andean Food and Farming | p. 196 |
On the Importance of Our Connection to Food | p. 201 |
Protecting the Culture and Genetics of Wild Rice | p. 206 |
Cultural Change, Climate Change, and the Future of Civilization | p. 215 |
Decolonization and Global Indigenous Struggles for Justice | |
Protecting the Web of Life: Indigenous Knowledge and Biojustice | p. 220 |
Return of the Ancient Council Ways: Indigenous Survival in Chiapas | p. 229 |
Front Line of Resistance: Indigenous Peoples and Energy Development | p. 239 |
Speaking for the Voiceless | p. 247 |
Re-Indigenization | |
Re-Indigenization Defined | p. 252 |
El Poder de la Palabra/The Power of the Word: Toward a Nahuatl/Mestizo Consciousness | p. 265 |
Mending the Split-Head Society with Trickster Consciousness | p. 288 |
Re-Nativization in North and South America | p. 298 |
Taro Roots Run Deep: Hawaiian Restoration of Sacred Foods and Communities | p. 304 |
The Power of Being a Human Being | p. 318 |
Indigenous Resources | p. 324 |
Notes | p. 338 |
Bibliography | p. 343 |
Contributors | p. 347 |
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