The Talking Circle
Theses
Author/Creator
Mary Katharine Duffie
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1989.
Includes explanation of the main features of the two knowledge systems and three brief case studies: Indigenous plant classification and nomenclature; pine mushroom industry in Northwestern BC; smallpox epidemic of 1862; and AIDS and its impact on Indigenous populations.
Recommended for Grade 8 Biology.
Excerpt from the author's Ph.D. dissertation: Natures of the Sacred: On Native North American Sacred Lands and Places.