Indigenous Visitors to Boise
Sam Demientieff is an Alaskan Native who was born in the Athabaskan village of Holy Cross on the Lower Yukon River in 1939. Sam’s family operated a river freighting business on the Yukon and Tanana rivers, living and working on the boats during the summer months. Sam saw many Alaskan villages and different environments throughout Alaska. Sam came to Boise, ID in February of 2017 to talk about what environmental changes and aspects he has observed over his lifetime.
Meda DeWitt is a Tlingit Traditional Healer who also came to Boise in February 2017 to share her environmental knowledge. Meda runs Haa Joonà Productions, for the purpose of engaging and empowering communities through the power of telling stories, with multi-media and traditional indigenous healing methods. She has a second business based on traditional skills building within communities through the delivery of trainings on Indigenous plant usage as food and medicine and traditional health practices. This includes hands on cooking or medicine making, field identification, Alaska Native stories and worldview, educational lectures, bodywork, and energy work.
High School Textbook
Arms, Karen. Environmental Science. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. Print.
Additional Reference Material
Cajete, Gregory. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light, 2000. Print.
Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling & Skill. London: Routledge, 2000. Print.
Johnson, Jay T., Renee Pualani Louis, and Andrew Kliskey. Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying Our Methods (WIS2DOM) Workshop. Rep. N.p.: National Science Foundation, 2014. Print.
Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff., and Peter Coppolillo. Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2005. Print.