Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science Iñupiaq on damn near every page

on damn near every page

he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences

originally of Ketchikan

But Chelsea Vowel asks

Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science Iñupiaq on damn near every pageAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse.