Sãiçpálî - (Paperback)

About the Book

Describes the traditional use of the whitebark pine and the work of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of western Montana to preserve the tree despite climate change.

Book Synopsis

This book describes the efforts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to save and restore sãiçpálî or whitebark pine, which is now threatened with extinction from accelerating and intensifying effects of the climate crisis and disease. Often there is too little communication and exchange between Indigenous communities working on issues of cultural survival and restoration and scientists focused on their own research methodologies and approaches. On the Flathead Reservation, however, these disparate worlds are being brought together in a visionary biocultural restoration effort to save whitebark pine.

About the Author

Michael Durglo Jr., climate coordinator, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; Richard G. Everett; Tony Incashola Jr.; Maureen I. McCarthy; ShiNaasha H. Pete; Joshua M. Rosenau; Séliñ-Qæispé Elders Cultural Advisory Council, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; Thompson Smith, historian, Séliñ-Qæispé Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; Shirley Trahan, elder and cultural adviser, Séliñ-Qæispé Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes; and Anne A. Carlson.