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- Summary
- Explores beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment in the ecological wisdom of the world's indigenous peoples
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xliv, 274 pages
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments (p.xv) -- Author's note (p.xvii) -- A personal foreword : the value of native ecologies / David Suzuki (p.xxvii) -- Visions of the natural world : shaman and scientist (p.1) -- Distant times : recognizing the kinship of all life (p.23) -- The power of the sun's yellow light (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.28) -- Makers and formers (American Southwest : Hopi) (p.30) -- In distant times it is said (Alaskan interior : Koyukon) (p.34) -- Saya, the first hunter (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver) (p.37) -- Talaiden : a sacred law against laughing at animals (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.40) -- Northwestern Territory, Australia : Yarruiln community) (p.45) -- Life goes on without end (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.48)
- Contents (cont.): Mother Earth : nature as a living system (p.51) -- The building blocks of the universe (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.56) -- The path of our elder the sun (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.58) -- In praise of the red ant ally (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.62) -- The nature of things (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.67)-- The world energy circuit (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.70) -- Ways of seeing nature : native natural histories (p.75) -- An observational biology (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.79) -- The architecture of the human brain (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.85) -- On nurturing nature (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.91) -- Human greed and pollution will one day destroy the world (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.95)
- Contents (cont.): Primal powers : the kinship of humans and beasts (p.97) -- On frightening children (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.102) -- The gifts of the northern wind (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.105) -- Each species sees the world through its own eyes (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.107) -- animal behavior (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.112) -- The master of the animals (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.115) -- The willingness of a deer to die (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.120) -- Plant powers : the relationship between humans and vegetation (p.125) -- Something that grows (Alaskan Interior : Koyukon) (p.130) -- Islands of forest (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.136) -- Cutting the cane people (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.139) -- The honey tree song (Sarawak, Malaysia : Dayak) (p.144)
- Contents (cont.): Sacred space : the relationship between humans and land (p.149) -- The sacred microcosm of the Navajo hogan (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.154) -- How humans, spirit power, and the land create a living whole (Central British Columbia : Gitksan) (p.157) -- Red kangaroo dreaming (Central Australia : Aranda) (p.159) -- The heart of our mother Earth (Arizona : Hopi) (p.168) -- Bone country (Northern Australia : Murngin (p.170) -- Time as a circle : responding to the rhythms of nature (p.175) -- A year of caribou moons (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.181) -- Swan time (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver)) (p.184) -- The pulsations of cosmic time (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.186) -- The consequences of time's circle on cause and effect (Central British Columbia : Gitksan and Wetsuweten) (p.188) -- Time measured by the forests we have eaten (Vietnam : Mnong Gar) (p.191)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213)
- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia :) (p.233).- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235). destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica: Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft " Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213) -- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia : Lilwat) (p.233) -- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235)
- Contents (cont.): Our mother the Earth is growing old now (Northeastern North America : Iroquois Confederacy) (p.237) -- The gourd of ashes (Oraibi, Arizona : Hopi) (p.241) -- The destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica : Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft "Universal Declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples" (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Isbn
- 9780553088625
- Label
- Wisdom of the elders : honoring sacred native visions of nature
- Title
- Wisdom of the elders
- Title remainder
- honoring sacred native visions of nature
- Statement of responsibility
- David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson
- Subject
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- Indian philosophy
- Indigenous peoples
- Nature -- Culte
- Indians -- Religion
- Écologie humaine -- Aspect religieux
- Indiens -- Philosophie
- Autochtones
- Indians -- Religion
- Nature worship
- Human ecology -- Religious aspects
- Indigenous peoples
- Indian philosophy
- Indiens -- Religion et mythologie
- Nature worship
- Human ecology -- Religious aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Explores beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment in the ecological wisdom of the world's indigenous peoples
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Suzuki, David T.
- Dewey number
- 304.2
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GF80
- LC item number
- .S88 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Knudtson, Peter
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human ecology
- Nature worship
- Indians
- Indian philosophy
- Indigenous peoples
- Écologie humaine
- Nature
- Indiens
- Indiens
- Autochtones
- Human ecology
- Indian philosophy
- Indians
- Indigenous peoples
- Nature worship
- Nature
- Nature
- Label
- Wisdom of the elders : honoring sacred native visions of nature, David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index
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- Contents
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- Acknowledgments (p.xv) -- Author's note (p.xvii) -- A personal foreword : the value of native ecologies / David Suzuki (p.xxvii) -- Visions of the natural world : shaman and scientist (p.1) -- Distant times : recognizing the kinship of all life (p.23) -- The power of the sun's yellow light (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.28) -- Makers and formers (American Southwest : Hopi) (p.30) -- In distant times it is said (Alaskan interior : Koyukon) (p.34) -- Saya, the first hunter (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver) (p.37) -- Talaiden : a sacred law against laughing at animals (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.40) -- Northwestern Territory, Australia : Yarruiln community) (p.45) -- Life goes on without end (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.48)
- Contents (cont.): Mother Earth : nature as a living system (p.51) -- The building blocks of the universe (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.56) -- The path of our elder the sun (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.58) -- In praise of the red ant ally (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.62) -- The nature of things (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.67)-- The world energy circuit (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.70) -- Ways of seeing nature : native natural histories (p.75) -- An observational biology (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.79) -- The architecture of the human brain (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.85) -- On nurturing nature (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.91) -- Human greed and pollution will one day destroy the world (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.95)
- Contents (cont.): Primal powers : the kinship of humans and beasts (p.97) -- On frightening children (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.102) -- The gifts of the northern wind (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.105) -- Each species sees the world through its own eyes (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.107) -- animal behavior (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.112) -- The master of the animals (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.115) -- The willingness of a deer to die (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.120) -- Plant powers : the relationship between humans and vegetation (p.125) -- Something that grows (Alaskan Interior : Koyukon) (p.130) -- Islands of forest (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.136) -- Cutting the cane people (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.139) -- The honey tree song (Sarawak, Malaysia : Dayak) (p.144)
- Contents (cont.): Sacred space : the relationship between humans and land (p.149) -- The sacred microcosm of the Navajo hogan (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.154) -- How humans, spirit power, and the land create a living whole (Central British Columbia : Gitksan) (p.157) -- Red kangaroo dreaming (Central Australia : Aranda) (p.159) -- The heart of our mother Earth (Arizona : Hopi) (p.168) -- Bone country (Northern Australia : Murngin (p.170) -- Time as a circle : responding to the rhythms of nature (p.175) -- A year of caribou moons (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.181) -- Swan time (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver)) (p.184) -- The pulsations of cosmic time (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.186) -- The consequences of time's circle on cause and effect (Central British Columbia : Gitksan and Wetsuweten) (p.188) -- Time measured by the forests we have eaten (Vietnam : Mnong Gar) (p.191)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213)
- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia :) (p.233).- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235). destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica: Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft " Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213) -- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia : Lilwat) (p.233) -- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235)
- Contents (cont.): Our mother the Earth is growing old now (Northeastern North America : Iroquois Confederacy) (p.237) -- The gourd of ashes (Oraibi, Arizona : Hopi) (p.241) -- The destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica : Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft "Universal Declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples" (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Control code
- ocm25164911
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xliv, 274 pages
- Isbn
- 9780553088625
- Lccn
- 92000067
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- Other physical details
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- (Sirsi) o25164911
- (OCoLC)25164911
- Label
- Wisdom of the elders : honoring sacred native visions of nature, David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments (p.xv) -- Author's note (p.xvii) -- A personal foreword : the value of native ecologies / David Suzuki (p.xxvii) -- Visions of the natural world : shaman and scientist (p.1) -- Distant times : recognizing the kinship of all life (p.23) -- The power of the sun's yellow light (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.28) -- Makers and formers (American Southwest : Hopi) (p.30) -- In distant times it is said (Alaskan interior : Koyukon) (p.34) -- Saya, the first hunter (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver) (p.37) -- Talaiden : a sacred law against laughing at animals (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.40) -- Northwestern Territory, Australia : Yarruiln community) (p.45) -- Life goes on without end (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.48)
- Contents (cont.): Mother Earth : nature as a living system (p.51) -- The building blocks of the universe (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.56) -- The path of our elder the sun (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.58) -- In praise of the red ant ally (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.62) -- The nature of things (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.67)-- The world energy circuit (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.70) -- Ways of seeing nature : native natural histories (p.75) -- An observational biology (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.79) -- The architecture of the human brain (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.85) -- On nurturing nature (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.91) -- Human greed and pollution will one day destroy the world (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.95)
- Contents (cont.): Primal powers : the kinship of humans and beasts (p.97) -- On frightening children (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.102) -- The gifts of the northern wind (Canadian Subarctic : Waswanipi Cree) (p.105) -- Each species sees the world through its own eyes (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.107) -- animal behavior (Africa : San Bushmen) (p.112) -- The master of the animals (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.115) -- The willingness of a deer to die (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.120) -- Plant powers : the relationship between humans and vegetation (p.125) -- Something that grows (Alaskan Interior : Koyukon) (p.130) -- Islands of forest (Amazonia : Kayapo) (p.136) -- Cutting the cane people (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.139) -- The honey tree song (Sarawak, Malaysia : Dayak) (p.144)
- Contents (cont.): Sacred space : the relationship between humans and land (p.149) -- The sacred microcosm of the Navajo hogan (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.154) -- How humans, spirit power, and the land create a living whole (Central British Columbia : Gitksan) (p.157) -- Red kangaroo dreaming (Central Australia : Aranda) (p.159) -- The heart of our mother Earth (Arizona : Hopi) (p.168) -- Bone country (Northern Australia : Murngin (p.170) -- Time as a circle : responding to the rhythms of nature (p.175) -- A year of caribou moons (North American Arctic : Barren Grounds Inuit) (p.181) -- Swan time (Northeastern British Columbia : Dunne-za (Beaver)) (p.184) -- The pulsations of cosmic time (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.186) -- The consequences of time's circle on cause and effect (Central British Columbia : Gitksan and Wetsuweten) (p.188) -- Time measured by the forests we have eaten (Vietnam : Mnong Gar) (p.191)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213)
- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia :) (p.233).- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235). destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica: Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft " Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Contents (cont.): World renewal : maintaining balance in the natural world (p.195) -- Caring for the land (North-Central California : Wintu) (p.200) -- A prayer to the inner forms of the Earth (American Southwest : Navajo) (p.203) -- Dancing to renew the world (Amazonia, Brazil : Kayapo) (p.207) -- Human overpopulation (Colombia (Northwestern Amazon) : Desana) (p.208) -- Human responsibility for nature (North-Central United States : Dakota Sioux) (p.211) -- The suffering of trees (Malaysia : Chewong) (p.213) -- Bringing the buds to life (New Mexico : Tewa (Eastern Pueblo)) (p.215) -- The fate of the Earth : Voices of the elders (p.221) -- Communicating a sense of the sacred (Southwestern British Columbia : Lilwat) (p.233) -- Indigenous people--caretakers of all life (Hotevilla, Arizona : Hopi) (p.235)
- Contents (cont.): Our mother the Earth is growing old now (Northeastern North America : Iroquois Confederacy) (p.237) -- The gourd of ashes (Oraibi, Arizona : Hopi) (p.241) -- The destruction of the wooden people (Mesoamerica : Maya) (p.242) -- Appendix : excerpt from the United Nations draft "Universal Declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples" (p.251) -- Notes (p.259) -- Index (p.269)
- Control code
- ocm25164911
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xliv, 274 pages
- Isbn
- 9780553088625
- Lccn
- 92000067
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o25164911
- (OCoLC)25164911
Subject
- Autochtones
- Human ecology -- Religious aspects
- Human ecology -- Religious aspects
- Indian philosophy
- Indian philosophy
- Indians -- Religion
- Indians -- Religion
- Indiens -- Philosophie
- Indiens -- Religion et mythologie
- Indigenous peoples
- Indigenous peoples
- Nature -- Culte
- Nature worship
- Nature worship
- Écologie humaine -- Aspect religieux
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