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A Call for Indigenous First in Definition and Application for Environmental Stewardship Julia Terhune*, Julia Terhune,

Indigenous persons and perspectives have been excluded from practical applications and academic definitions of environmental stewardship. This exclusion is an issue of justice, and a missed opportunity for innovation, lasting change, and environmental reformation. To make a case for an indigenous-first approach to defining and applying environmental stewardship, a content analysis of 63 peer-reviewed papers was conducted. These papers were selected from a diverse field of disciplines to understand and develop a comprehensive and multidisciplinary definition of environmental stewardship. The analysis of these definitions was used in this argument for an indigenous-first definition of environmental stewardship that can be practically applied in the co-management of public land in the United States.