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Front. Environ. Archaeol.
Sec. Archeobotany
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fearc.2024.1433611
This article is part of the Research Topic Indigenous Stewardship of Cultural Landscapes and Heritage View all 3 articles

Braiding Frameworks for Collaborative Stewardship Scholarship

Provisionally accepted
Molly Carney Molly Carney 1,2*
  • 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
  • 2 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

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    Human-environment relationships are most frequently viewed from evolutionary perspectives, despite the vast body of literature which highlights how many Indigenous peoples engage with and understand place, plants, and animals as kinship relations. My goals in this essay are twofold: first, to suggest we adopt the phrase stewardship to recognize and uphold notions of respect, reciprocity, and relationships that are common within many Indigenous worldviews, and secondly, to advocate for the use of pluralistic approaches to our collaborative scholarship. I offer examples from my own experiences in reconstructing stewardship histories across people, plants, and places in the Pacific Northwest.

    Keywords: braided knowledges, Plant Management, kinship, Pacific Northwest, Collaborative archaeologies, relationality, Indigenous knowledges

    Received: 16 May 2024; Accepted: 04 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Carney. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Molly Carney, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States

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