Challenges and Considerations for
TEK Research
References and Further Reading:
Books
André, Julie-Ann, et al. (2008) We Feel Good out Here = Zhik Gwaa’an, Nakhwatthąįįtat Gwiinzìi. Fifth House Publishers.
Absolon, Kathleen E. (2011) Kaandossiwin: How We Come to Know. Fernwood Publishers.
Angalik, Shelby, Ariana Roundpoint, Lindsay Dupre, (2017) Sila and the Land. ED-Ucation Publishing.
Awiakta, Marilou (1994). Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom. Fulcrum Publishing.
Battiste, Marie, and James Youngblood Henderson (2016). Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge. http://www.deslibris.ca/ID/451364.
Beaver, Henry (2018). Sharing our truths Tapwe: This land is our storybook. Fifth House.
Berkes F. (2012) Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Routledge.
Cajete, G. (1999). Native science: Natural laws of interdependence. Clear Light Books: Santa Fe, NM.
Cajete, Gregory (1999). A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living. Clear Light Publishers, https://archive.org/details/peoplesecologyex0000unse.
Cajete, Gregory (1999). Igniting the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Model. Kivaki Press.
Carroll, Clint (2016). Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance, https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816690893.001.0001.
Cornelius, Carol (1999). Iroquois Corn in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Respectfully Teaching about Cultures. State University of New York Press.
Coyle, Michael, and John Borrows (2017). The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties.
Flett, Julie (2013). Wild berries = Pikaci-m īnisa. Simply Read Books.
Genuisz, M. Siisip (2015) Plants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask: Anishinaabe botanical teachings. University of Minnesota Press.
Geniusz, W.D. (2009). Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings. Syracuse University Press.
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (2020). As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock.
Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, and Native North American Travelling College (2000). Words That Come before All Else: Environmental Philosophies of the Haudenosaunee. Native North American Traveling College.
Hoover, Elizabeth (2017) The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community. University of Minnesota Press.
Kermoal, Nathalie, et al. (2016). Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place, http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/athabasca_univ/living_land/index.html.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
Kukutai, T. and J. Taylor (2016), Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda. ANU Press.
LaDuke, W. (1999) All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Haymarket Books.
Marchand, Michael E. and Kristiina A. Vogt, Rodney Cawston, John D Tovey, John McCoy, Nancy Maryboy, Calvin T Mukumoto, and Daniel J Vogt (eds). (2020) The Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-making Process of Indigenous Peoples. Michigan State University Press.
Martinez, Xiuhtezcatl, et al. (2017). We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet, https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11945201.
Middleton, Beth Rose (2013). Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation. University of Arizona Press.
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, et al. (2019). Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health.
Murphy, Andi, and Monica Braine (2019). Imminent cuisine: indigenous food futurisms.
Nelson, Melissa K. (2008). Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future. Bear & Company.
Rawal, Sanjay, et al. (2020). Gather, https://torontopl.kanopy.com/node/10847003.
Ross, A., Sherman, R., Snodgrass, J. G., & Delcore, H. D. (2011). Indigenous peoples and the collaborative stewardship of nature: knowledge binds and institutional conflicts. Left Coast Press.
Salmón, Enrique (2020). Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2230798.
Articles
Deloria, Philip J. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Mark N. Trahant, Loren Ghiglione, Douglas Medin, Ned Blackhawk (2018) “Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century.” Daedalus, 147(2):6-16.
Gagnon, V.S. (2016) “Ojibwe Gichigami (“Ojibwa’s Great Sea”): An intersecting history of treaty rights, tribal fish harvesting, and toxic risk in Keweenaw Bay, United States.” Water History, 8(4):365-384.
Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 169: special issue, “Water in the Native World: Indigenous Water Issues.” Free access available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1936704x/2020/169/1
Kozich, Andrew, Kathleen Halvorsen and Alex Mayer (2018) “Perspectives on Water Resources among Anishinaabe and Non-Native Residents of the Great Lakes Region.” Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 163:94-108. Retrieved from and available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2018.03272.x
McGregor, Deborah. (2012). “Traditional Knowledge: Considerations for Protecting Water in Ontario.” International Indigenous Policy Journal, 3(3). DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2012.3.3.1
Nadasdy, Paul. 1999. “The Politics of TEK: Power and the ‘Integration’ of Knowledge.” Arctic Anthropology. 36 (1-2):1-18.
Siisip Genuisz, M. Plants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask.
Tekahnawiiaks King, Joyce (2007): “The Value of Water and the Meaning of Water Law for the Native Americans Known as the Haudenosaunee.” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 16(3): 449-472. Retrieved from and available at: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216744306.pdf (includes information regarding the Haudenosaunee Position Paper on the Great Lakes (2005), pp. 466-470).
Vinyeta, Kirsten; Lynn, Kathy (2013). “Exploring the role of traditional ecological knowledge in climate change initiatives.” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p. Retrieved from and available at: https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr879.pdf
Wehipeihana, N., Increasing Cultural Competence in Support of Indigenous-Led Evaluation: A Necessary Step Toward Indigenous-Led Evaluation. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 2019, 34(2).