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TEK, An Overview

Haudenosee Gratitude

Water core to survival, wealth & health. So there’s many millenia of incredible ancestral infrastructure, similar environments on every continent but for Antarctica.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is the on-going accumulation of knowledge, practice and belief about relationships between living beings in a specific ecosystem that is acquired by indigenous people over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with the environment, handed down through generations, and used for life-sustaining ways. This knowledge includes the relationships between people, plants, animals, natural phenomena, landscapes, and timing of events for activities such as hunting, fishing, trapping, agriculture, and forestry. It encompasses the world view of a people, which includes ecology, spirituality, human and animal relationships, and more.

-Synopsis of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, National Park Service

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