Sustainability: Learning from the Past	17
	1 The Context for Our Sustainability Story	19
	1.1 Post-1492: European Colonialism Impacts on Peoples of the Americas	19
	1.2 Post-1492: European Colonialism: Thirst for Resource-rich Lands	21
	1.3 We Need A Different Glue to Make Sustainability Work	24
	1.4 Essential Sustainability: Insights from A Water Metaphor	27
	1.4.1 Water—A Scarce Global Common Resource	27
	1.4.2 Water as A Sacred Resource	29
	1.4.3 Water, Water Everywhere but Still Scarce	32
	1.5 Our Coyote Mascot Blends the Dual Nature of Sustainability	36
	1.6 A Tribal Perspective on Sustainability	37
	Coyote Essentials	41
	2 Battles to Eliminate Native American Traditions and Cultures	43
	2.1 European Colonial “Manifest Destiny”	44
	2.1.1 Taming Indian Lands through Agriculture	45
	2.1.2 Euro-Americans Settling the “Wild West”	46
	2.1.3 Becoming Civilized: Redemption and Westward Migration	49
	2.2 War on Native American Cultures and Traditions	52
	2.2.1 U.S. Relocation, Termination and Assimilation Policies	53
	2.2.2 Removal of Buffalo for “Manifest Destiny”	66
	2.2.3 Removal of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest	67
	2.2.4 Building Dams on Tribal Lands	71
	2.3 Contemporary Context of Native American Lands and Resources	78
	A Lens on Cultures and Traditions of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities	83
	3 Introduction to Folklore and Cultural Survival	85
	3.1 Western World Stories	85
	3.2 Inter-generational Indigenous Cultural Stories	87
	3.2.1 Learning Nez Perce Culture while Growing Up as Remembered by Rodney	93
	3.3 What Does It Mean to Be A Traditional Ecological Practitioner?	96
	3.3.1 Break the Law When Practice Culture	96
	3.3.2 Indian Spirituality	100
	3.3.3 Native American Languages	107
	Coyote Essentials	110
	Portfolio for Sustainability: Native American Behavior Blended with Western Science	111
	4 The Nuts and Bolts of A Sustainability Portfolio	113
	4.1 Practicing Indigenous Cultures and Traditions	116
	4.1.1 Cultural Forest Practices in the Halimun Ecosystem Area, Indonesia	118
	4.1.2 Essential Practices of A Sustainable Portfolio as Summarized by John D Tovey	121
	4.2 Humanizing Sustainable Practices	127
	4.3 Western World Ecosystem and Adaptive Management	129
	4.4 Recognize Western World and Indigenous Community Differences in How Humanize Sustainability	133
	Coyote Essentials	136
	5 Portfolio Element : How to Connect Society with Nature	137
	5.1 Divergent Models of “Wild” Nature and How Different Societies Connect to It	137
	5.2 Western World Model: Nature Bounded by Borders	141
	5.2.1 Nature Needs to Be Controlled	143
	5.2.2 Zoo Becomes A Nature Experience	145
	5.2.3 Today’s Nature: Bounded Larger Artificial Landscapes	149
	5.3 Native American Model: Borderless Nature	150
	5.3.1 American Tribes: Nature, Sense of Property Is Culture-based as Told by Mike	152
	5.3.2 No Walls: Active Landscape Management, Nature Not Wasted	155
	Coyote Essentials	158
	6 Portfolio Element : How to Make Practical and Realistic Decisions	159
	6.1 To Become Sustainable Don’t “Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater”	159
	6.2 Leave Your Individual Biases Outside the Door	162
	6.2.1 “False” Indian Stories	162
	6.2.2 Stories of “Real” Indians	167
	6.2.3 The Life of John McCoy	171
	6.3 Think Slowly and for the 7th Generation	172
	6.4 Long Scientific History but Short Human Memory	175
	6.5 Inter-generational Adaptation and Grandmothers as Told by John D Tovey	179
	6.6 Cultural Diversity the Norm in Regional Landscapes: Iban Tribe, Indonesian Borneo	180
	Coyote Essentials	183
	7 Portfolio Element : Follow a Native American Business Model	185
	7.1 Company Business Plans or Village Economics	185
	7.1.1 Non-tribal Business Plans	186
	7.1.2 Tribal Business Plans	188
	7.2 Western World Moving towards Humanizing Business Practices	192
	7.2.1 Historical Recognition of Need to Humanize Economics	192
	7.2.2 Human Development Index Rankings	193
	7.2.3 Beyond Western Business Plans	196
	7.3 How the Energy Intensive Business Model Made the Environment and People of Iceland Less Resilient as Told by Raga	199
	7.4 Reservation Lands Historically Undesirable but Rich in Economic Resources Today	204
	7.5 Trustee Exploitation of Tribal Resources on Reservations	205
	Coyote Essentials	208
	8 Portfolio Element : Creative Governance from Consensual Flexible Partnerships	209
	8.1 Long Western World History: Few Stories of Consensual and Equitable Governance	209
	8.1.1 Historical Top Down Governance	209
	8.1.2 Historical Western World Governance Structures that Did Include People	211
	8.2 American Indians: Village and Confederacies Make Natural Resource Decisions	217
	8.3 Link Taboos to Non-negotiable Values When Making Economic Decisions	221
	Coyote Essentials	226
	Culture as the Core of Native American Resource Leadership	227
	9 Traditions Are Not JustWritings Found in Library Archives: Native Americans Driving and Controlling Resources Today	229
	9.1 Salmon Restoration and Tribal Co-management	232
	9.2 Dams—Removal, Mitigation and Redesign	235
	Coyote Essentials	239
	10 Final Words on Essential Native American Leadership	241
	10.1 “Melting Pot” versus “Salad Bowl Assimilation” Discussion	242
	10.2 Lessons from My Grandfather by Mike	243
	10.3 Essential Tribal Leadership through Partnerships, Governance and Sovereignty	245
	10.3.1 One Tribal Business Model: Tulalip Tribes Building A Federal City	249
	10.3.2 Increasing Collaboration on Nature Using the Native American Approach	255
	10.4 Essential Sustainability: Building A Native American Behavior and Thinking Toolkit	259
	10.5 How to Do Business in A “Boom and Bust” Economy	262
	Coyote Essentials	266
	11 Summary of All Book Coyote Essentials	269
	References	273
	Index	283