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The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness
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Hawaiian Proverb

Did native culture live sustainably with the Earth? How did they do this? What can we learn from these cultures that is useful in the present? What can we learn about their destruction?
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For further experiences:
  • Ahupua'a Action Alliance

  • Arnold, J. E. 2001. The origins of a Pacific Coast chiefdom: the Chumash of the Channel Islands. The Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

  • Callicott, J. B. 1994. Earth's insights. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley.

  • Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, germs and steel: the fate of human societies  W. W. Norton & Company, New York.

  • Johannes, Robert Earle. 1981. Words of the lagoon: fishing and marine lore in the Palau district of Micronesia. University of California Press, Berkeley.
     
  • Kirch, P. V. 1984. The evolution of the Polynesian chiefdoms. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK.

  • McLuhan, T. C. 1971. Touch the Earth: a self-portrait of Indian existence. Outerbridge & Dienstfrev, New York.

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