Principles of Tsawalk An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis

Name: Principles of Tsawalk An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
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ISBN: 9780774821278

ISBN-10: 0774821272

ISBN-13: 9780774821278

Edition: 2011

Authors: Umeek / E. Richard Atleo

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In Nuu-chah-nulth, the wordtsawalkmeans"one." It expresses the view that all living things -humans, plants, and animals - form part of an integrated wholebrought into harmony through constant negotiation and mutual respectfor the other. Contemporary environmental and political crises,however, reflect a world out of balance, a world in which Westernapproaches for sustainable living are not working.InPrinciples of Tsawalk,hereditary chief Umeek buildsupon his previous book,Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview,to elaborate an alternative framework for responding to globalenvironmental and political crises and to indigenous peoples'poverty, dispossession, and displacement in the realms of…

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List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 7/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880

Umeek (E. Richard Atleo), a hereditary Nuu-cha-nulth chief,ï¿½is a research liaison at the University of Manitoba and an associate adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Wikis ca?miihta: Things Are Out of Balance, Things Are Not in Harmony



Mirrors and Patterns



Genesis of Global Crisis and a Theory of Tsawalk



The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Recognition



The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Consent



The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Continuity



Hahuulism: "Our Stories Are True!"


Notes


Index