Community Based Research Project Paper
Traditional Envoronmenal Knowledge of the Banks Island Inuit as Relating to the Management of the Banks Island Muskox Herd
Introduction
Traditional Knowledge tries to understand systems as whole and not isolate the interacting parts. As Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) users will point out, you pay attention to things, when those things are what keep you alive. Traditional Knowledge is an understanding and reverence that native people have with ecosystems. It is often expressed in spiritual and cultural terms and rules, providing not only description and reverence for natural resources but an ethical system for human behavior for sustaining ecosystems, including humans, for generations that will follow. Humans depend on ecosystems and human actions must reflect this dependency.
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