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Subject(s)

• Gwich'in Indians—Political activity [Browse]
• Inupiat—Political activity [Browse]
• Alaska Natives—Politics and government [Browse]
• Human ecology—Political aspects—Alaska [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

Cambridge elements. Elements in indigenous environmental research [More in this series]

Summary note

"This Element supports Gwich'in, Iñupiat, and all Alaska Natives' collective continuance and reparative justice from the perspective of a settler in the traditional territories of lower Tanana Dene Peoples. It stands with Alaska Natives' recovering and safe-keeping: kinships obstructed by settler-colonialism; ontologies and languages inseparable from land-relations and incommensurable with English-language perspectives; and epistemologies not beholden to any colonialist standard. These rights and responsibilities clash with Leopoldian conservation narratives still shaping mind-sets and institutions that eliminate Indigenous Peoples by telling bad history and by presuming entitlements to lands and norm-making authority. It models an interlocking method and methodology - surfacing white supremacist settler-colonialist assumptions and structures of Leopoldian conservation narratives - that may be adapted to critique other problematic legacies. It offers a pra xis of anti-colonialist, anti-racist, liberatory environmental-narrative critical-assessment centering Indigenous experts and values, including consent, diplomacy, and intergenerational respect needed for stable coalitions-making for climate and environmental justice." -- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction : facing decolonization
• Matrix of methodology and method
• Refusing Leopoldian settler-colonial proposals
• Self-critiquing rote repetition (a redux)
• Settler listening as rejoinder : Alaska Native storytelling
• Conclusion : toward kinship references.

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ISBN

• 9781009384759 (paperback)
• 1009384759 (paperback)
• 9781009476034 (hardback)
• 1009476033

OCLC

1547675579

Doi

• 10.1017/9781009384728

Other standard number

• CIPO000205281

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