![]() | Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance Subjects: Cherokee Indians -- Ethnobotany; Cherokee Indians -- Medicine; Political ecology -- Cherokee Nation; Environmental policy -- Cherokee Nation; Land use -- Cherokee Nation; Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government; Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Until now, scant attention has been paid to the interplay between tribal natural resource management programs and governance models. Carroll is particularly interested in indigenous environmental governance along the continuum of resource-based and relationship-based practices and relates how the Cherokee Nation, while protecting tribal lands, is also incorporating associations with the nonhuman world. Carroll describes how the work of an elders' advisory group has been instrumental to this goal since its formation in 2008. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Carroll draws from his ethnographic observations of Cherokee government-community partnerships during the past ten years. He argues that indigenous appropriations of modern state forms can articulate alternative ways of interacting with and "governing" the environment. Clint Carroll is assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. |
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