“Sharing One Skin” is a story about the Okanagan people's wisdom of the four selves. The author Jeanette Armstrong is from this tribe and is also the one who is telling about these different selves. She talks about the four selves that are the physical self, the thinking intellectual self, spiritual self, and emotional self. Jeanette Armstrong explains the significance of these and how they correlate with herself and the land where their people reside. I can relate to some of these things mentioned in the story. Mainly the thought of the four selves. In my community, I learned about these in a different way. We’re spiritual people so I can connect with this thought. The way I interpreted it is that the author wanted to inform us about these things so we have an understanding and hope we’ll have a connection to the environment and earth.

Armstrong, Jeannie. “Community: Sharing One Skin.” Paradigm Wars, Sierra Club Books Publisher. 2006. Print. Pp. 35-39

The article of “Taos Pueblo: Appeal to Congress for the Return of the Blue Lake (1970).” Talks about the struggle & that the people of Taos faced in trying to get ownership of the Blue Lake near Wheeler Peak NM. They had been using the resources from the area and the lake itself for over 700 years. Then back in 1906 president Theodore Roosevelt seized 48,000 acres of land in Colfax county, New Mexico and this land was then turned into a National Forest. Since this time they have tried multiple times but failed to get it back until the year of 1971. They also passed certain bills by congress to allow them to have protection laws to the lake. Like the conservation and water rights H.R. 471 was one of these laws that required the secretary of the interior to “be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of conservation measures for this land including without limitation, protection forest from fire, disease, insects or trespass, Prevention or elimination from erosion, damaging land use, or stream pollution, and maintenance of stream flow and sanitary conditions.”

"Taos Pueblo: Appeal to Congress for the Return of Blue Lake (1970)." The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience, ABC-CLIO, 2021, americanindian-abc-clio-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/Search/Display/1388307. Accessed 8 Oct. 2021.

The “Council of Energy Resource Tribes” (CERT) was founded back in 1975. This represents 25 native american tribes and nations that own sustainable reserves of energy and other natural resources. These natural resources consist of gas & coal reserves and uranium. CERT is governed by 54 elected tribal leadership by 54 recognized Indian tribes and 4 Canadian bands. By 2005 Denver based-CERT, a consortium of 58 American and Canadian Indian politicians, to help Native American recognize, protect, and exploit energy wealth on their lands. Their members have been working to get self-management of their energy resources. They’ve been working on protecting the environment by verifying revenue payments and negotiating agreements.

Johansen, Bruce E. "Council of Energy Resource Tribes." The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience, ABC-CLIO, 2021, americanindian-abc-clio-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/Search/Display/1384751. Accessed 11 Oct. 2021.

This video I watched happened about 17 years ago back in 2004. It was about the fire and floods in Santa Clara canyon. Their canyon burned from a forest fire. The soil is cooked so it hardens like clay. This makes it harder for rain to penetrate the soil and because of this the water runned off into the canyon down the stream during a rainy day & from watersheds. The water brought down the burnt trees and even destroyed cabins that were for rent to campers and fishermen. Some houses got hit by the debris that came with the flood.

“After fire and floods, restoring a sacred New Mexico canyon (2014).” Youtube, channel: PBS News Hour. https://youtu.be/BSU8eVK5U2k

This article was about facing issues with Land conservation methods. In the article it says environmental specialists rely on scientists for information on effective conservation strategies and methods. When this is done environmental specialists often turn these plans into action. This is not accomplished through practice. Throughout this process they study the habitat then eventually see how they can enact new Land conservation tools.

Kartez, Jack D. “Information Into Action: Biodiversity Data Outreach and Municipal Land Conservation.” Taylor and Francis Online, 15 Oct. 2008, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/01944360802378096?scroll=top&needAccess=true.

This article explains the issues within the state of Carolina and how they face problems with “landscapes for biodiversity.” These animals in the state of Carolina are threatened at state level, the eastern tiger salamander, Carolina gopher frog and the red-cockaded woodpecker. The team collected data on movement behavior on these species. They use various different techniques to track these animals. With those methods the team was able to map out their habitat on other areas of land. The map was made from collected data that shows the habitat connectivity with not only the areas where those species lived but also other locations where they move to.

Moody, Aaron. Connecting Landscapes for Biodiversity: Habitat Conservation on and around DoD Lands, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2011, https://go-gale-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/ps/i.do?p=MSIC&u=nm_s_santafeis&id=GALE%7CA257765947&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco.

In this video there are multiple people who are talking about conservation mainly in biodiversity conservation. It is made clear in this video that there are a lot of ways to start and practice land conservation or any type of conservation in general. But in this video it also explains there are two types of conservationists. There are some that actually want to protect the land and restore it but there are also others who fake it and in the end use it for other resources for profit. A good example shown in this video was President Roosevelt. He claimed to be a land conservationist but traveled to africa and brazil where there is the most biodiversity in the world. He ended up killing hundreds of animals from these visits. That was just an example of how there are some people who aren’t really conservationists and they end up wanting the resources from certain lands for different material like a mineral that is used for electric batteries for electric cars. At the end it explains the real problem and the biggest problem is the way our economic society and its consumption scale.

Extinction rebellion UK: The Problem with Conservation | Extinction Rebellion DE https://youtu.be/jOjAtHw94gI