Sustainability has always been an important issue to Indigenous peoples, although it is sometimes a confusing new concept to industrialized nations. This collection of websites, print publications, and media about sustainability features those that incorporate Indigenous views of the subject. Vol. 13, Issue 3, Spring 2002 Full description.

The Crow Place Names project at Little Big Horn College documents and preserves traditional place names, including the stories connected to those names. Stories about places often relate to important historical incidents and to behavioral values. Crow places are named more often for the physical characteristics of the land than after specific people, as is the case in American culture, and names commonly ... Full description.

This page introduces the concept of traditional knowledge, detailed knowledge of the environment based on teachings and experiences and passed orally from generation to generation. Topics include how Native people define traditional knowledge, comparisons between indigenous and scientific knowledge, and the role of women and children in traditional knowledge. There is also discussion of the structure ... Full description.

Anishinaabe traditional knowledge of constellations, comets, and meteorites connects people to the night sky in ways that modern astronomy does not. The stories of historical events bear within them wisdom about future possibilities as well as the past, and stories of constellations convey crucial information about cultural worldview and philosophy. Summer 2002, vol. 17, no. 3 Full description.

This is the homepage of the Circumpolar Arctic Eco-Regions project, an initiative to develop an ecoregion map for the entire Circumpolar Arctic. Analogue and digital mapped information gathered for the project covers such subjects as bedrock and surficial geology, land surface forms, climate, hydrology, wildlife, land use/land cover, and cultural and ecological regionalization. Site materials include ... Full description.

The TRIBES program, Tribal Resource Institute in Business, Engineering, and Science, is a powerful education program developed and run by the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT). Native high school students attend the program for seven intense weeks at the University of New Mexico. They learn leadership skills, take coursework designed to help them be better prepared for college, and form a community ... Full description.

A college environmental science course for students at an Anishinaabe tribal college is designed to incorporate cultural values into the curriculum. Goals are that students learn both Western and Indigenous science, that they earn a fully transferrable degree, that they learn more of Anishinaabe culture at an academic level, and that they enroll more often in natural science courses. Specific laboratory ... Full description.

In Diné culture, land use planning is natural and develops from specific processes of thought or consciousness, planned action and responses, equilibrium and life outcomes, and sustainable stability. Every member of a natural community participates in these processes -- the air, rocks, animals, water, plants, and people. A college course in environmental planning based on the Din&#233 land use ... Full description.

These two tables compare and contrast knowledge styles and usage of indigenous and scientific knowledge. Knowledge styles are compared based on assumptions made, oral versus written traditions, experience versus formal teaching, and others. Comparisons of in-use attributes include length of time required for acquisition, use in prediction, types of modeling, and bases for explanations. Full description.

This is the homepage of the Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC), an organization dedicated to bringing together research and science in partnership with the Native community. Site materials include information on Alaska Native communities; especially a searchable database of contacts for community knowledge and a directory of local, statewide, and federally recognized Alaska Native agencies. There ... Full description.