and Anishinaabe People of Shoal Lake
The purpose of this paper is to generate a dynamic description of cultural landscapes that moves current thinking beyond cultural landscapes as artifacts that are considered to be final products. In this paper, cultural landscape is defined as the physical expression of the complex and dynamic sets...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.589.6556 http://www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural_resources/canadaresearchchair/Indigenous Lands Management, Cultural Landscapes and Anishinaabe People of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.pdf |
Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to generate a dynamic description of cultural landscapes that moves current thinking beyond cultural landscapes as artifacts that are considered to be final products. In this paper, cultural landscape is defined as the physical expression of the complex and dynamic sets of relationships, processes and linkages between societies and environments. A societys environmental perception, values, institutions, technologies and political interests will result in particular planning and management goals and objectives for a specific landscape. Indigenous resource management systems often result in different cultural landscapes than those of managerial ecology. The process of how an indigenous cultural landscape is replaced by a cultural landscape of managerial ecology is documented in this paper. The restoration of indigenous cultural landscapes will first require recognition of the custodial responsibility of indigenous peoples for the beings with whom they share the land. This can then lead to |
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