ABSTRACT
Indigenous scholars, ethnoecologists, and historical ecologists have long chronicled the inextricable link between environment, society, culture, and language, showing how peoples’ land-use and management practices have shaped historical cultural landscapes (Gilmore 1930; Anderson 1996; Posey 1999; Cajete 2000). These same researchers and practitioners have recognized that, globally, Indigenous peoples have a disproportionately greater role in maintaining and stewarding many of the most biologically and functionally diverse ecosystems on Earth (e.g., Garnett et al. 2018; Fernández-Llamazares et al. 2021). This has prompted a wave of research focusing on Indigenous land-use at various temporal and ecological scales (Winter et al. 2020; Reid et al. 2020; Morin et al. 2021), and across a range of pressing and relevant issues such as climate change mitigation and adaptation (Whyte 2017; Leonard et al. 2020; M’sɨt No’kmaq et al. 2021).
