Subsistence Rights
Examples of this pattern in action:
Makah Whale Hunt
The Makah harvest of gray whales for the first time in several years is culturally significant because it marks a return to ways of old. Traditionally, the Makah have taken gray whales to provide sustenance and to culturally celebrate the whale via ceremonies and rituals.
Fighting For Subsistence Rights In Southeast Alaska
KETCHIKAN, AK - So many of the controversies in the coastal temperate rain forest are portrayed as battles between preservation and consumption that it's refreshing to run across a conflict which pits one kind of livelihood against another. On the Cleveland Peninsula, just across Behm Canal from Ketchikan, an unusual coalition of subsistence hunters, fishers and recreationists is fighting to protect 200,000 acres of wildlands from clearcuts and roadbuilding. Their agenda isn't to protect the cuddly animals and the pretty landscape, it's to preserve an opportunity to forage for the venison, salmon and crab that comprise an substantial part of their diet…
Organizations whose work incorporate this pattern:
The Makah Nation
References:
Berkes, Fikret. Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. Taylor & Francis. Philadelphia, PA. 1999.
Morgan, Nancy, et al. More Than the Sum of Our Parks: People, Places and a Protected Areas System for British Columbia. Ecotrust Canada and Ecotrust. Vancouver, BC. 1997.
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