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Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
Significance Large and severe wildfires are becoming increasingly common worldwide and are having extraordinary impacts on people and the species and ecosystems on which they depend. Indigenous peoples comprise only 5% of the world’s population but protect approximately 85% of the world’s biodiversity through stewardship of Indigenous-managed
Kira M. Hoffman, Emma L. Davis, Sara B. Wickham, Kyle Schang, Alexandra Johnson, Taylor Larking, Patrick N. Lauriault, Nhu Quynh Le, Emily Swerdfager, Andrew J. Trant   +9 more
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Sensing the Past: Perspectives on Collaborative Archaeology and Ground Penetrating Radar Techniques from Coastal California

Remote Sensing, 2021
This paper summarizes over a decade of collaborative eco-archaeological research along the central coast of California involving researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, tribal citizens from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and California ...
Gabriel M. Sanchez, Michael A. Grone, Alec J. Apodaca, R. Scott Byram, Valentin Lopez, Roberta A. Jewett   +5 more
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Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge through the Caribou Hunter Success Working Group

Land, 2020
The caribou stewardship practices of the Iñupiat have persisted through cycles of abundance and decline for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH). This research seeks to address the challenges and opportunities faced when mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge
Hannah Atkinson
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Protecting our coast for everyone's future: Indigenous and scientific knowledge support marine spatial protections proposed by Central Coast First Nations in Pacific Canada

People and Nature, 2022
We, the Haíłzaqv, Kitasoo Xai'xais, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations, are the traditional stewards of our territories in the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Mike Reid, Muxvpenstista Lena Collins, Smawn Richard J. Hall, Ernest Mason, Gord McGee, Alejandro Frid   +5 more
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Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration

Ecology and Society, 2022
Knowledge of how ecocultural landscapes co-evolved, how they were shaped and maintained by local people, and what processes disturbed the landscape should inform the planning, execution, and significance of restoration projects.
Sara B. Wickham, Skye Augustine, Andra Forney, Darcy L. Mathews, Nancy Shackelford, Jennifer Walkus, Andrew J. Trant   +6 more
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Indigenous stewardship of coastal resources in native California

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Indigenous people have profoundly influenced terrestrial and marine ecosystems by modifying coastal habitats to increase the productivity of target species and altering local biotas through their harvesting practices. In some cases, these actions led to local resource depression, while in other instances, Indigenous people engaged with terrestrial and ...
Gabriel M. Sanchez, Michael Grone, Alec Apodaca   +2 more
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Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management

Nature Communications, 2022
‘Commercial fisheries have decimated keystone species, including oysters in the past 200 years. Here, the authors examine how Indigenous oyster harvest in North America and Australia was managed across 10,000 years, advocating for effective future ...
Leslie Reeder-Myers, Todd J. Braje, Courtney A. Hofman, Emma A. Elliott Smith, Carey J. Garland, Michael Grone, Carla S. Hadden, Marco Hatch, Turner Hunt, Alice Kelley, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Michael Lockman, Iain McKechnie, Ian J. McNiven, Bonnie Newsom, Thomas Pluckhahn, Gabriel Sanchez, Margo Schwadron, Karen Y. Smith, Tam Smith, Arthur Spiess, Gabrielle Tayac, Victor D. Thompson, Taylor Vollman, Elic M. Weitzel, Torben C. Rick   +25 more
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What Can Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Teach Us About Changing Our Approach to Human Activity and Environmental Stewardship in Order to Reduce the Severity of Climate Change?

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2018
Many Indigenous communities living on traditional lands have not contributed significantly to harmful climate change. Yet, they are the most likely to be impacted by climate change.
John Hansen, Rose Antsanen
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Alaska Native Subsistence Rights: Taking an Anti-Racist Decolonizing Approach to Land Management and Ownership for Our Children and Generations to Come

Societies, 2022
The colonization of Indigenous Peoples in Alaska was based on racism and founded the current systemic racism, discrimination, and marginalization they experience today.
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon
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Linking marine conservation and Indigenous cultural revitalization: First Nations free themselves from externally imposed social-ecological traps

Ecology and Society, 2018
Continuity of coastal Indigenous cultures relies on healthy ecosystems and opportunity to fulfill cultural practices. Owing to resource stewardship practice over millennia, Indigenous nations possess Indigenous knowledge that positions them as leaders in
Lauren E. Eckert, Natalie C. Ban, Snxakila-Clyde Tallio, Nancy Turner   +3 more
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