Getting back to that point of balance: Indigenous environmental justice and the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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John R. Oberholzer Dent¹  Carolyn Smith²  M. Cristina Gonzales³  Alice B. Lincoln-Cook³ 

[1] Stanford University;University of California;California Indian Basketweavers' Association

关键词: basketweaving;    California Indians;    Indigenous environmental justice;    Indigenous people;    natural resource management;    pesticides;    prescribed fire;    reciprocal relations;    settler colonialism;    traditional ecological knowledge;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-13674-280114

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Emerging theories of Indigenous environmental justice reframe environmental problems and solutions using Indigenous onto-epistemologies, emphasizing the agency of non-human relations and influence of colonialism. The California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA) embodies this paradigm in its work to expand access to gathering areas, revitalize cultural burning, and stop pesticide use. Through our different positionalities as CIBA members, California Indian basketweavers, and researchers, we construct a case study of Indigenous environmental justice that articulates environmental stewardship as intrinsically linked with cultural and spiritual practice. Through education, information sharing, relationship building, lobbying, and collective action among its membership and land management agencies, CIBA has expanded basketweavers’ access to safe and successful gathering. By sustaining millennia of tradition, CIBA builds Indigenous sovereignty and shifts California’s land management paradigm toward environmental justice and global survival.

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