Aboriginal antidiabetic plant project with the James Bay Cree of Québec

Cuerrier, Alain; Downing, Ashleigh; Patterson, Elisabeth; Haddad, Pierre S.

doi:10.1108/17506201211258414

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“…Besides building positive relationships between Elders and youth as well as between communities and researchers, the primary legacies produced at both cross-cultural plant workshops include a collection of herbarium specimens and a summary workshop booklet for each community (Crewe and Johnstone 2010;Downing et al 2012). The creation of a local herbarium is an exercise of active learning that links scientific, cultural and local knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this article, we discuss how workshops are ideal tools to assist in the transmission of both TK and scientific knowledge, and then present the outcomes of two cross-cultural plant workshops held in Old Crow (Yukon; Crewe and Jonhstone 2010) and Nain (Nunatsiavut; Downing et al 2012). The workshops also documented proper regional plant names and spelling, something that to date had not been done with these communities.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Our plants, our land: bridging aboriginal generations through cross-cultural plant workshops

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Changes in subsistence practices have negatively affected the social and economic structure of aboriginal communities across the Arctic. This has resulted in fewer opportunities for the transmission of traditional knowledge (TK). This article provides two case studies of how researchers can assist northern communities in TK transmission and provide a venue for science and TK to meet, thereby fostering a positive relationship between scientists and aboriginal communities. Cross-cultural workshops engaging youth, Elders and researchers were held in Old Crow (Yukon, western Canada) and in Nain (Nunatsiavut, eastern Canada) on the traditional uses and naming of plants. Hands-on activities on the land garnered interest in TK and science among aboriginal youth. Elders and researchers worked together to place importance on TK, fostering pride and helping to strengthen ties for the maintenance of cultural identity. For example, learning the local names of plants, their uses, and how to properly create herbarium specimens of plants engaged youth in the scientific process while illustrating the importance of TK shared by their Elders. Here we show how maintaining an interactive dialogue with communities helps researchers keep their work relevant and meaningful for communities and catalyzes continued interest in the transfer of knowledge.

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Our plants, our land: bridging aboriginal generations through cross-cultural plant workshops

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“…Special Issue on Ethics in Ethnobiology strengthened through rigorous documentation at the time seeds and/or plants are first collected. Community protocols can be addressed by any number of methods (Bannister 2008) and research agreements (Cuerrier et al 2012;Fediuk and Kuhnlein 2003;Scott and Receveur 1995). Records of agreements regarding ongoing rights to collected plant material should be documented and must accompany seed and plant specimen transfers, along with other formal research agreements with local communities and countries.…”

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The Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Seed Rights during Ethnobotanical Research

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2018

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Recognition of the importance of biodiversity for global food security and the community food sustainability movement has helped increase awareness of seed rights. International treaties created to ensure the world’s access to seed biodiversity address access to seed banks for breeding purposes. Ethnobotanists are often required to deposit research plant specimens with government seed banks or herbariums. If Indigenous Peoples’ plants are then used developing patented varieties, are their rights recognized? These rights depend upon recognition of Indigenous Peoples as plant breeders, prior informed consent (PIC) protocols, access and benefit sharing (ABS) agreements via material transfer agreements, and benefits returned to Indigenous and local communities per the Nagoya Protocol. To ensure such rights to genetic material and associated intellectual property rights, documentation of these agreements and links to the people and communities from which they originated needs to occur at first collection and throughout subsequent research, conservation, and breeding programs.

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“…Toutefois, l'intérêt grandissant pour la médecine traditionnelle, en particulier pour les plantes médicinales, fait réapparaître un point sensible : les droits de propriété intellectuelle. Plusieurs groupes de recherche, liés ou non à des entreprises pharmaceutiques privées, misent sur la découverte de nouveaux principes actifs contre le cancer, le diabète ou toute autre maladie, à partir des données ethnobotaniques (Lewis, 2003 ;Cuerrier et al, 2012 (Williams et al, 2006) qui exhorte les jardins à se munir de principes en accord avec ceux de la Convention sur la diversité biologique et notamment, avec son 3 e objectif, l'accès aux ressources génétiques et le partage juste et équitable des avantages liés à leur utilisation (APA) décliné dans le protocole de Nagoya (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2011). Sur le plan international, des associations, comme l'International Society of Ethnobiology (2006), cherchent aussi à sensibiliser les chercheurs et les populations locales au travail et au commerce éthiques lorsqu'ils touchent à la biodiversité.…”

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