Wildlife Management

Features

• Biology with an Ojibwe Component

  Marjane Ambler

  Though it only started three years ago, the wildlife program at Turtle Mountain Community College teaches students about practices “that were done a thousand years ago,” says instructor Jeff Desjarlais.

• Science Should Serve the Community

  Michael Hill

  Disenchanted with the competitive, “publish or perish” nature of being a university scientist, Judy Gobert now serves as program manager for the All Nations Alliance for Miniority Participation and has bigger ideas about bringing American Indian scientists together to solve health and environmental problems.

• Haskell Offers Indigenous Economics Course

  Hannes Combest

  All too often, Franda Flyingman says, “the cost of giving up our traditional values has been too expensive for the benefits gained in recent economic development.” Flyingman has developed a business course at Haskell Indian Nations University that incorporates Western economics and a serious investigation of Native belief systems, the management of tribal governments, tribal law, psychology, and sociology.

• Return of the Buffalo: The effort to restore bison to Native Americans

  David Cournoyer

  The market for buffalo is thriving and with large amounts of grassy reservation land and ideal buffalo habitat, InterTribal Bison Cooperative members enjoy a potentially strong business position but by and large, Indians haven’t played much of a part.

• To Please the Animal Master: The Innu hunting way of life

  Stephen Loring

  You won’t find Nitassinan on any published maps. Nitassinan is a land that exists in the hearts and the minds of the Innu, the indigenous people of what the people that “come-from-away” call northern Quebec and Labrador. Nitassinan was among the first parts of the New World to be visited by Europeans, but it was among the last to be mapped. It is a land of extremes: behind the stark, imposing coast of ice-scoured barren headlands there are trackless forests of stunted-spruce and a myriad maze of muskeg, rivers, and lakes.

• John-Pierre Ashini: Innu hunter and teacher

  Marjane Ambler

  At 35, John-Pierre Ashini is still a young man, but the weight of change rests heavily upon his shoulders, according to Stephen Loring of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.

• Caribou Dreams

  John-Pierre Ashini

  John-Pierre Ashini is one of the last men of his generation trained to hunt in the traditional ways. He learned at his father’s side when he was 10 years old, and when his father died, he went hunting with his grandfather who told him this story of a desparate winter hunt .

• Blessings From Our Four-Legged Friends

  Lucille Victor-Benally

  Pets have a spiritual way of getting into mischief, for the good of their master, I suppose. It’s their way of communicating with their master.

Editor's Essay

• Can Native and Western Wildlife Managers Find Common Ground?

  Marjane Ambler

  When European-American explorers first ventured into the West, they found the plains black with bison–the American buffalo. By 1873, the plains were filled instead with a sickening stench as hundreds of bison carcasses lay rotting.

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Profile

• Kelly Morgan: Navajo renaissance man

  Gail Burke

  Crownpoint Institute of Technology continually seeks ways to encourage its 330 Navajo students to learn the new technologies required by today’s world and at the same time to cherish and sustain the values of their own culture.

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Resource Guide

• 7-4 Spring 1996 “Wildlife Management” Resource Guide

  MINORITIES IN SCIENCE

  American Indian Science and Engineering Society

  AISES has moved. The new address is 5661 Airport Blvd.; Boulder,

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Research

• Native American Students Define Factors for Success

  Terri Wenzlaff

  The authors consider some possible reasons why Native American students at a predominately white university have been successful students.They describe how Native American students, who are participants in a Native American Secondary Teacher Education Program, have learned to accommodate their cultural needs within a Caucasian higher education institution.