Intellectual property rights and the sacred balance / Darrell Addison Posey -- Contextualizing the environmental struggle / Tom Greaves -- In the eye of the storm: tribal peoples of India / Pradip Prabhu -- Shoot the horse to get the rider / Stephanie Fried -- Nature and culture / Jack D. Forbes -- Local knowledges, global claims / J. Peter Brosius -- Is indigenous spiritual ecology just a new fad? Reflections on the historical and spiritual ecology of Hawai'i / Leslie E. Sponsel -- The road to heaven / Victor D. Montejo -- Tapu, Mana, Mauri, Hau, Wairua / Manuka Henare -- The sacred egg / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Melanesian religion, ecology, and modernization in Papua New Guinea / Simeon B. Namunu -- Interface between traditional religion and ecology among the Igorots / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Religion, ritual, and agriculture among the present-day Nahua of Mesoamerica / Javier Galicia Silva -- The life and bounty of Mesoamerican sacred mountain / María Elena Bernal-García -- Calabash trees and cacti in the indigenous ritual selection of environments for settlement in colonial Mesoamerica / Angel Julián Garciá Zambrano -- Warao spiritual ecology / Werner Wilbert -- Hunting, nature, and metaphor / Harvey A. Feit -- Sovereignty and Swaraj / Smitu Kothari -- Respecting the land / Diane Bell -- Kumarangk / Tom Trevorrow and Ellen Trevorrow -- Contemporary Native American responses to environmental threats in Indian country / Tirso A. Gonzales and Melissa K. Nelson -- A guest on the table / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Learning from ecological ethnicities / Pramod Parajuli -- Changing habits, changing habitats / Mary N. MacDonald -- Indigenous education and ecology / Gregory Cajete -- Andean cosmovision and the nurturing of biodiversity / Julio Valladolid and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin.