“People who lived in a place for generations—tens to hundreds of thousands of years—needed to have their act together in order to survive. They needed to know how to use the land, and how to use the land sustainably. This is not a function of just one population in any one generation...I’m going to talk about is trying to integrate traditional knowledge into modern science. I’m not putting Western science down. It has a very useful role, but from the traditional point of view, we feel it has a limited role. I will talk about why we need to try and integrate or form a synthesis of Western ecological sciences and traditional environmental knowledge.”
Dennis Martinez
Takelma Inter-Tribal Project
Restoration Consultant
Images from http://iceagefloods.blogspot.com/2009/04/dalles-and-she-who-watches.html
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