Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous PeoplesJones and Bartlett, 1999 - 250 pages The health of Native Americans is intimately tied to the health of the environment. Yet abuses of land, water, and air continue to compromise the health of native people and their land rights. This fascinating book explores this intimate relationship between people and the land, and environment and health. Here is an important message for health care providers, ecologists, and those who attempt to live their lives in harmony with the earth. |
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Page 174
... Sami migration into Finnish Lapland . In 555 A.D. , the Byzantine historian Procopius wrote one of the first sources in which the country of Thule ( Scandinavia ) was referred to as an island with a large number of tribes . The people ...
... Sami migration into Finnish Lapland . In 555 A.D. , the Byzantine historian Procopius wrote one of the first sources in which the country of Thule ( Scandinavia ) was referred to as an island with a large number of tribes . The people ...
Page 192
... Sami mythology , owls are messengers of the shaman . When I returned home from Finland , the snow fell in thick , heavy flakes all day and night . At dawn , two great horned owls slipped silently into the snow - filled pine woods behind ...
... Sami mythology , owls are messengers of the shaman . When I returned home from Finland , the snow fell in thick , heavy flakes all day and night . At dawn , two great horned owls slipped silently into the snow - filled pine woods behind ...
Page 249
... Sami People ( Rovaniemi , Finland ) : Chernobyl , nuclear fallout from , 175-176 migration of , 174 uranium and , 92 worldview of , 19 , 174-175 Satanta , 94 Saynday , 93 Schmidt , Louise , 86-89 Seafood : mercury contamination , 126 ...
... Sami People ( Rovaniemi , Finland ) : Chernobyl , nuclear fallout from , 175-176 migration of , 174 uranium and , 92 worldview of , 19 , 174-175 Satanta , 94 Saynday , 93 Schmidt , Louise , 86-89 Seafood : mercury contamination , 126 ...
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