The Longue Dure: A Braudelian Framework for Managing Contaminated Federal Properties

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The Longue Durée A Braudelian Framework for
Managing Contaminated Federal Properties

• Mervyn L. Tano, President
• International Institute for Indigenous Resource
  Management

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Background

• Extent of contamination of federal facilities.
• FFERDC
• Seventh Generation?

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Braudel

• A brief bio.
• The three temporalities
• The evenementielle.
• Conjonctures.
• The longue durée.

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The Longue Durée Structures

• The land.
• Transportation.
• Religion.
• Democracy.
• Rule of Law.
• Science.

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Why native healers

• The perverse persistence of indigenous peoples.
• Knowledge of land and resources.
• Intimate nature of their knowledge of land and
  resources.
• Transmitters of traditional knowledge.
• Trusted.
• Authority figure.

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Do not think only of the short time span, do not
believe only the actors which make the most noise
are the most authenticthere are other, quieter
ones too. Fernand Braudel, Histoire et sciences
sociales La longue durée, 1980.