Native Americans and Protected Areas:
Translating Differences in Natural and Cultural Resource Management
Jeremy Spoon
Tuesday Oct. 7th: 5:00-6:30pm
105 Miller Hall
Drawing from on-going projects among Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) and various protected areas, Dr. Spoon reflects on his experiences translating the needs of land management agencies to indigenous populations as well as articulating a collective voice for indigenous populations to communicate back to these agencies.
Jeremy Spoon is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University and Research Associate at The Mountain institute. He has collaborated for seventeen years with various indigenous peoples and protected areas in the United States, Nepal, Kenya and Hawai’i.
See jeremyspoon.com
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College