Climate Change and Odawa Cultural Plants in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake Shore

Autor: Richard William Stoffle, Michaei J. Evans, Christooher Sittler Sittler, Desmond L. Berry, Kathleen Van Vlack
Rok vydání: 2022
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-869301/v1
Popis: Climate change has been observed for hundreds of years by plant specialists of three Odawa Tribes in the Upper Great Lakes along Lake Michigan. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is the focus of two National Park Service-funded studies of Odawa Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of plants and ecosystems and climate change impacts on these. Data collected during these ethnobotany studies were designed to contribute to a Plant Gathering Agreement between the tribes and the park. This essay provides an analysis of these observations derived from 95 ethnographic interviews conducted by University of Arizona anthropologists. Odawa people recognize in the park 288 plants and five habitats of traditional and contemporary concern. Tribal representatives explained how 115 of these traditional plants and all five habitats are known from multigenerational eyewitness accounts to have been impacted by climate change.
Databáze: OpenAIRE