Sustainability: Learning from the Past 1 1 The Context for Our Sustainability Story 3 1.1 Post1492: European Colonialism Impacts on Peoples of the Americas 3 1.2 Post1492: European Colonialism: Thirst for Resourcerich Lands 1.3 We Need A Different Glue to Make Sustainability Work 8 1.4 Essential Sustainability: Insights from A Water Metaphor 11 1.4.1 WaterA Scarce Global Common Resource 11 1.4.2 Water as A Sacred Resource 13 1.4.3 Water, Water Everywhere but Still Scarce 16 1.5 Our Coyote Mascot Blends the Dual Nature of Sustainability 20 1.6 A Tribal Perspective on Sustainability 21 Coyote Essentials 25 2 Battles to Eliminate Native American Traditions and Cultures 27 2.1 European Colonial "Manifest Destiny" 28 2.1.1 Taming Indian Lands through Agriculture 29 2.1.2 EuroAmericans Settling the "Wild West" 30 2.1.3 Becoming Civilized: Redemption and Westward Migration 33 2.2 War on Native American Cultures and Traditions 36 2.2.1 U.S. Relocation, Termination and Assimilation Policies 37 2.2.2 Removal of Buffalo for "Manifest Destiny" 50 2.2.3 Removal of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest 51 2.2.4 Building Dams on Tribal Lands 55 2.3 Contemporary Context of Native American Lands and Resources 62 A Lens on Cultures and Traditions of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities 67 3 Introduction to Folklore and Cultural Survival 69 3.1 Western World Stories 69 3.2 Intergenerational Indigenous Cultural Stories 71 3.2.1 Learning Nez Perce Culture while Growing Up as Remembered by Rodney 77 3.3 What Does It Mean to Be A Traditional Ecological Practitioner? 80 3.3.1 Break the Law When Practice Culture 80 3.3.2 Indian Spirituality 84 3.3.3 Native American Languages 91 Coyote Essentials 94 Portfolio for Sustainability: Native American Behavior Blended with Western Science 95 4 The Nuts and Bolts of A Sustainability Portfolio 97 4.1 Practicing Indigenous Cultures and Traditions 100 4.1.1 Cultural Forest Practices in the Halimun Ecosystem Area, Indonesia 102 4.1.2 Essential Practices of A Sustainable Portfolio as Summarized by John D Tovey 105 4.2 Humanizing Sustainable Practices 111 4.3 Western World Ecosystem and Adaptive Management 113 4.4 Recognize Western World and Indigenous Community Differences in How Humanize Sustainability 117 Coyote Essentials 120 5 Portfolio Element I : How to Connect Society with Nature121 5.1 Divergent Models of "Wild" Nature and How Different Societies Connect to It 121 5.2 Western World Model: Nature Bounded by Borders 125 5.2.1 Nature Needs to Be Controlled 127 5.2.2 Zoo Becomes A Nature Experience 129 5.2.3 Today's Nature: Bounded Larger Artificial Landscapes 133 5.3 Native American Model: Borderless Nature 134 5.3.1 American Tribes: Nature, Sense of Property Is Culturebased as Told by Mike 136 5.3.2 No Walls: Active Landscape Management, Nature Not Wasted 139 Coyote Essentials 142 6 Portfolio Element ]I: How to Make Practical and Realistic Decisions143 6.1 To Become Sustainable Don't "Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater" 143 6.2 Leave Your Individual Biases Outside the Door 146 6.2.1 "False" Indian Stories 146 6.2.2 Stories of "Real" Indians 151 6.2.3 The Life of John McCoy 155 6.3 Think Slowly and for the 7th Generation 156 6.4 Long Scientific History but Short Human Memory 159 6.5 Intergenerational Adaptation and Grandmothers as Told by John D Tovey 163 6.6 Cultural Diversity the Norm in Regional Landscapes: Iban Tribe, Indonesian Borneo 164 Coyote Essentials 167 7 Portfolio Element llI: Follow a Native American Business Model169 7.1 Company Business Plans or Village Economics 169 7.1.1 Nontribal Business Plans 170 7.1.2 Tribal Business Plans 172 7.2 Western World Moving towards Humanizing Business Practices 176 7.2.1 Historical Recognition of Need to Humanize Economics 176 7.2.2 Human Development Index Rankings 177 7.2.3 Beyond Western Business Plans 180 7.3 How the Energy Intensive Business Model Made the Environment and People of Iceland Less Resilient as Told by Raga 183 7.4 Reservation Lands Historically Undesirable but Rich in Economic Resources Today 188 7.5 Trustee Exploitation of Tribal Resources on Reservations 189 Coyote Essentials 192 8 Portfolio Element 1V : Creative Governance from Consensual Flexible Partnerships 193 8.1 Long Western World History: Few Stories of Consensual and Equitable Governance 193 8.1.1 Historical Top Down Governance 193 8.1.2 Historical Western World Governance Structures that Did Include People 195 8.2 American Indians: Village and Confederacies Make Natural Resource Decisions 201 8.3 Link Taboos to Nonnegotiable Values When Making Economic Decisions 205 Coyote Essentials 210 Culture as the Core of Native American Resource Leadership 211 9 Traditions Are Not Just Writings Found in Library Archives: Native Americans Driving and Controlling Resources Today 213 9.1 Salmon Restoration and Tribal Comanagement216 9.2 DamsRemoval, Mitigation and Redesign 219 Coyote Essentials 223 10 Final Words on Essential Native American Leadership 225 10.1 "Melting Pot" versus "Salad Bowl Assimilation" Discussion 226 10.2 Lessons from My Grandfather by Mike 227 10.3 Essential Tribal Leadership through Partnerships, Governance and Sovereignty 229 10.3.1 One Tribal Business Model: Tulalip Tribes Building A Federal City 233 10.3.2 Increasing Collaboration on Nature Using the Native American Approach 239 10.4 Essential Sustainability: Building A Native American Behavior and Thinking Toolkit 243 10.5 How to Do Business in A "Boom and Bust" Economy 246 Coyote Essentials 250 11 Summary of All Book Coyote Essentials 253 References 257 Index 267
