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Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
Clint Carroll
Although their forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, the reconstituted Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi eventually cultivated a special connection to the new land. In Roots of Our Renewal, Clint Carroll explores the interplay between tribal natural resource management programs and governance models that the Cherokee people have developed, showing how modern state forms can articulate alternative ways of interacting with and “governing” the environment.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Note to the Reader
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Preface
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Introduction. Keepers of Knowledge: Indigenous Environmental Governance
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1. Before Removal: The Political Ecology of the Early Cherokee State
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2. Shaping New Homelands: Landscapes of Removal and Renewal
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3. The “Greening” of Oklahoma: State Power and Cherokee Resurgence after the Dust Bowl
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4. Indigenous Ethnobotany: Cherokee Medicine and the Power of Plant Lore
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5. The Spirit of This Land: Terrains of Cherokee Governance
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Conclusion. Sovereign Landscapes: Spiritual, Material, and Political Relationships to Land
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Acknowledgments
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Appendix
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- 9780816690909 (paper)