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And Coyote said to The People, "If there is no death, the earth will become too small. There will be no room for the cornfields." And, the wise ones spoke: "It is just so. It is best that each should live a limited time on this earth, then make room for those to come." To this day, the Diné greet each day's sun, 'Sa'ah naagha éi Bik'eh hózhǫ, "On the trail of old age, I walk in beauty."The quest for long life has been a preoccupation of sorcer...

At the hard edge of the badlands of North Dakota, an impressionable eight-year-old boy finds himself on the Friesen family cattle ranch for the summer of 1949. The lessons of how to live often come unbidden, but when they do, they must be cherished and shared. This memoir is a timeless idyll to the people who chose to "stick" to a place many Americans imagine as "the last frontier." What was it like to live on a ranch on the High Plains of Nor...

West African pastoral groups (Arab, Tuareg, Toubou, and Fulani) experience contests both within their society, and, with outside agents regarding state integration, land use and development. Pastoral leadership, neighboring sedentary groups, national governments, multinational corporations, aid organizations, and academia all influence the paths pastoralists take in their relationship with the environment, the markets they return to, the anima...