Acknowledgments -- Authors' note -- A personal foreword: The value of native ecologies / David Suzuki -- 1. Visions of the natural world: shaman and scientist -- 2. Distant times: recognizing the kinship of all life -- 3. Mother earth: nature as a living system -- 4. Ways of seeing nature: native natural histories -- 5. Animal powers: the kinship of humans and beasts -- 6. Plant powers: the relationship between humans and vegetation -- 7. Sacred space: the relationship between humans and land -- 8. Time as a circle: responding to the rhythms of nature -- 9. World renewal: maintaining balance in the natural world -- 10. The fate of the earth: voices of the elders -- Appendix: Excerpt from the United Nations draft "Universal declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples" -- Notes -- Index
Summary:
A collection of the sacred wisdom of the Sioux, Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo, and other native peoples to show how we can create our own sacred ecology.