As newcomers to Turtle Island (North America), we have a responsibility to acknowledge its indigenous inhabitants. The Anishinaabe have sustainably lived in the Great Lakes region for thousands of years. For current conservation efforts to reach their full potential, we need to adapt two-eyed seeing, merging Western science with indigenous insight.
Resources
"GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of treaty rights during well-regulated, off-reservation seasons throughout the treaty ceded territories."
Visit ojibwe.net for language lessons, stories, songs, projects, and resources, including the Anishinaabewakiing - Anishinaabe Territory interactive map to see locations of Anishinaabe Nations in the Great Lakes Watershed.
"We strive to map Indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and the present day. We hope to strengthen the spiritual bonds that people have with the land, its people, and its meaning."
Links to tribal websites
"A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native Peoples of North America." Supported by UM-Dearborn
Articles
Nicholas J. Reo and Laura A. Ogden (2018)
Mateen A. Hessami, Ella Bowles, Jesse N. Popp, and Adam T. Ford (2021)
Avery Tilley and Elliot Nelson, Michigan State University Extension (2023)
Books
Serra J. Hoagland and Steven Albert
