Hunting is the most sustainable economy for northern ecosystems

Evidence

Often, the most sustainable economy and way of life in the northern ecosystems is based on hunting, not on agriculture or industrialism. The Innu’s hunting economy and culture work with the land and allow the animals to remain on their own path. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 284

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the grafting/trees essay’s underlying questioning of which land uses sustain vs. extract — flips the settler assumption that agriculture is progress over hunting.
• XREF: connects to: Sustainable economy requires ecology, human welfare, and spirit woven as one — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 533; Innu defended hunting as the core of their identity and language — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 323

Broader Connections

• Innu defended hunting as the core of their identity and language #exemplifies (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 323
• Sustainable economy requires ecology, human welfare, and spirit woven as one #expands (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 533