Transboundary cultural resources: Sacred wildlife, Indigenous emotions, and conservation decision-making

For many Indigenous communities in North America, the grizzly bear is a symbol associated with tribal medicine, spirituality, history, and knowledge. Despite its cultural importance to also federal trust responsibilities, Peoples are rarely consulted conservation decision-making concerning bears, emotional outcomes of these decisions poorly understood. In 2017 bears were removed from protection under Endangered Species Act Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Drawing political ecology geography, we use concepts resources 'networked space' investigates how about transboundary affect emotions inside outside policy-targeted areas such as Yellowstone. The non-subsistence that carry meanings for people who live beyond their current range. We find affecting transcend time space can have strong consequences our research participants area. connection psychological dimension ecologies, participant's responses delisting animated by historical traumas imposed living colonial state.