Using a qualitative approach focusing on in-depth interviews of members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California, we uncover how culturally hegemonic meanings of natural resources and landscapes privilege the water needs of modern development and deny the importance of Indigenous emotional connections to sacred places by limiting access to and protection of ancestral territories.
She wrote in moving terms about her husband's indigenous ancestry and connection with the natural world, as well as the devastation wrought by the Exxon Valdez spill.
It showed a lack of understanding of the deep connection that Indigenous people have with their traditional country and seems to have left even his Indigenous supporters shaking their heads.
Today there are more than 70 Indigenous groups with a connection to the reef, many of whom depend on it for their livelihoods.
He said that for Indigenous Australians looking for connection to their past, and a sense of identity, the shield was "where it all began".
Overall then, databases, or structured websites give off the impression that they are theory-neutral, masking the technical and political decisions made in the ordering and structuring process which, in fact, work against the very Indigenous ontology of multiple connection realities they are established to support (Christie 2004).
Instead, scientists, archaeologists and federal land managers recognize the need to understand and foster continuing cultural connection between indigenous people and the areas where they and their ancestors have lived, worshipped, hunted and gathered since time immemorial.
The link to Catholicism is easy to understand, seeing as Santa Muerte worship contains many of the same rituals used at the Vatican, while the connection to indigenous beliefs seems tenuous - any number of cultures worship the personification of death in some form.
The link to Catholicism is easy to understand, seeing as Santa Muerte worship contains many of the same rituals used at the Vatican, while the connection to indigenous beliefs seems tenuous any number of cultures worship the personification of death in some form.
Whereas the Western world is just now waking up to the consequences of its actions on the environment and global public health, he says, this is not news to indigenous peoples: "We see connections [that] sometimes others do not".
