Indigenous water histories I: recovering oral histories, interpreting Indigenous perspectives, and revealing hybrid waterscapes

摘要: This special issue attempts to shed new light on salient but neglected aspects of water history, “Indigenous histories.” In this first two journal issues dedicated topic, we present five articles that are pertinent three themes Water History has not entirely or substantially dealt with before: the use oral interpretation indigenous perspectives, and emphasis hybrid/divergent waterscapes. Readers, however, will see these largely complementary most popular topics explored before, such as histories reclamation projects, distribution, management, pollution, politics. Geographically, collection offers a broad coverage Indigenous by encompassing cases from United States (U.S.), Mesoamerica, eastern Timor Leste, northern western Australia. Valoree S. Gagnon traces changes continuity Ojibwe Gichigami (Ojibwa’s Great Sea) narratives fishing rights among Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan, U.S. Teresa Cavazos Cohn her coauthors discuss riparian plants landscapes Wind River watershed Wyoming, U.S., implications for Eastern Shoshone Northern Arapaho Tribes. The focus history germane fish should be readers History.