Seeds as Ancestors, Seeds as Archives
Seed Sovereignty and the Politics of Repatriation to Native Peoples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2500949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Gish Hill (0000-0003-1982-8206, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 93-112 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicrj.41.3.hill |
| OpenAlex | W2801973821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Plants have nurtured Native communities' physical, spiritual, and social well-being for centuries, while people reciprocated by caring for plants not only as integral actors embedded in a wider ecosystem, but also as treasured children and cherished ancestors. With the encroachment of non-Native peoples, however, the web of relationships between people, plants, and the landscape came under threat, including indigenous seeds. Throughout these upheavals, some Native individuals fought to retain knowledge and to keep valued seeds viable by planting them. This paper explores how these relationships with seeds have been disrupted, and, as a means of repairing them today, weighs the potential of repatriating seeds held in banks. I argue that a repatriation initiative should consider the perspectives of Native peoples who first bred these seeds, work to ease their access to them, and articulate how to care for them
Biology · Ethnology · Indigenous · Native american · Political science · Politics · Repatriation · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · American Environmental and Regional History · Law · Ecology
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“Mute Endurance”
"Mute Endurance"
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Identifying needs and uses of digital Indigenous food knowledge and practices for an Indigenous Food Wisdom Repository
Reuniting the Three Sisters
The seeds are coming home
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |