Indigenous Nations face significant challenges when it comes to the interrelated processes of cultural knowledge revitalization and environmental adaptation. These challenges range from compromised local ecological health brought about by development and climate change, to limited access to land due to legal, social, and/or political barriers, and to obstacles to knowledge transmission caused by educational and economic forces.
Results/Conclusions
This presentation will view these challenges in the context of past and ongoing mutually-constitutive structures of settler colonialism and capitalism. I will discuss my current NSF-funded project, which works with Cherokee people in Oklahoma to understand how methods for transmitting traditional knowledge and the management of local resources can adapt to the radically different social and environmental circumstances described above.