Subsistence News-9/9/94
To Subsistence 2
From: Larry Roberts:R10F02A
Postmark: Aug 31,94 7:58 AM Delivered: Sep 09,94 10:01 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-9/9/94
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Message:
*Most subsistence communities have customary rules for treating the land and the ecosystem.
*Rules have been passed down through successive generations: “Do not waste”; “Take only what is needed”; “treat the animals with respect”; “Do not damage the land without cause”; and many more.
*It is generally believed that if these laws are followed, then the land and ecosystem will continue to provide.
*Although they may not use the terms, subsistence people are the original land & resource managers because their lives depended on it.
*Many rural residents commonly obey two sets of laws–those set down by the State and Federal administration, and those handed down from their forefathers as customary law.
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