Hi All I received this email from Indigenous Hawai¹ian elder, Leilehua Yuen, an authority on royalty, ritual, ancient hula, and traditional relationships to wildlife. Leilehua is an expert on fauna and flora of the Big Island, and conducts EarthFoot’s Hawaiian People & Their Ecosystem program http://www.earthfoot.org/guides/yuen.htm (for those not in the know Earthfoot is a respected American website for natural history and cultural tourism). Leilehua introduced me to the birds and other fauna, and flora, and geology, of the Big Island when I was there in 2009, all within a cultural context. Her depth and breadth of knowledge is amazing.
Ah, dear Big Sis – any chance of our scaring up a grant for me to teach how to format traditional storytelling for the eco-tourist? I can see: a curriculum based on exploring the duality of science/tradition via finding science encoded in traditional stories.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow B.A. Grad.Dip.Arts 1/7 Songlark Street, Bakewell NT 0832, AUSTRALIA Ph. 61 08 89 328306 Mobile: 04 386 50 835
Birdwatching and Indigenous tourism consultant PhD Candidate (Southern Cross University, NSW) Interpreter/transcriber, Lonely Planet Guide to Aboriginal Australia Vice-chair, Wildlife Tourism Australia Nominated by Earthfoot (2004) for Conde Nast’s Traveler International Green List Award
http://www.denisegoodfellow.com.au http://www.earthfoot.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baby-dreaming www.fatbirder.com/ For copies of Birds of Australia¹s Top End or Quiet Snake Dreaming, visit amazon.com http://www.facebook.com/Wildlife.Tourism.Australia http://wildlifetourism.org.au
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