Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

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I think most us white people were "willing" to have conversations about race but not really take action on our words. I am choosing to ignore the choppiness, and occasional repetitiveness that made the book harder to read. Through her scientific and community work, she advocates for climate, energy, and environmental justice. As a Salvadoran and mestiza, I was excited to read this book, mostly because I was eager to learn the perspective of indigenous communities. The book demonstrates how Indigenous peoples are not the perpetrators of environmental destruction but face the most harm from those actions taken by others.

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Most Haw Mok type curies will contain coconut, making them rich and creamy they are particularly popular in the South of Thailand. I need to ponder how I present science lessons to students and if I am providing space to listen to their knowledge and experience rather than glorifying a Western science model.Indigenous peoples know their lands, know their environments, know some of the changes resulting from climate change.

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Maybe if I could engage in some dialogue around this book with someone, I might feel more value from it. However, there were statistics and references to reports or historical events throughout the book that weren't cited at all.

From this book, I was expecting an answer to what the description state - "why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models. The author does a good job at breaking down scientific concepts so that the everyday person who is not a scientist can read it.

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some sections of the book were good, but others were extremely structurally disorganized, such as the chapter that, by the title, i expected to be about indigenous food, but instead took a sharp segue to talk about the geopolitical history of banana republics and why comparing the january 6th insurrections to them was offensive and incorrect, before veering back to talk about climate-change-intensified hurricanes' effects on indigenous crops and then over to a metaphor comparing tamale preparation to indigenous resilience. Actual product packaging and materials may contain more and/or different information than that shown on our web site. I did see this some in the book (the discussion of milpas, examples of partnerships founded by Indigenous women that uplift the communities), but the focus was more on the need to decolonize/center Indigenous voices in the discussion instead of providing scientific (even if not scientific in the Western lens) examples. Note that banana leaves are porous (unlike tin foil), so some of the liquid or juices from your food may seep through. The traditional Puerto Rican pasteles is an example of a recipe using banans leaves as a wrap, but other similar tamales throughout Latin America use these leaves as containers for grains, beans, meat, and vegetables.Secondarily, that those who are most oppressed have the most to teach us, and the world has the most to gain in uplifting them.

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You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site.W]e face the highest ecological debt, yet those who are responsible for what the climate change our planet is undergoing continue to profit and benefit from settler colonialism.