Table 4-8: Interview responses of high and low TAP user groups for questions
 measuring attitudes towards traditional agriculture, Cherokee Nation,
 Oklahoma, 2005.
 Low Why High Why*
 TAP user TAP user
Number of 9 25
participants
Traditional 22% (1) healthier for 56% (4) low negative environmental
Farming body impact
 (1) can use (4) preserves connection with
 practices by his/her land/Earth/ Mother Earth
 self; taught how to (3) preserves nutrients/ healthier
 use them when for body
 young (2)good for culture/heritage
 (1) guidance comes from God
 (1) don't know
 (1) replenish soil
 (1) always practice this way
 (1) taught that is successful
 (1) high labor
Non- 56% (3) saves time 24% (1) have some products which
traditional/ (2) it's a better help and enhance garden, such as
Modem method( precision insecticides and fertilizers
farming agriculture, soil (1)so much research by
 tests, insecticides, agriculture extension done on
 herbicides, plants, they know more than 1-2
 pesticides) people
 (2) traditional (1) have more plant varieties to
 farming cannot pick from
 produce enough to (1) less work
 feed all people (1) raise more food in smaller
 (2) its easier area for benefit of people
 (1) no-till saves (1) it is easier
 fuel, energy, labor,
 increases profits
Neutral 11% 8% (1)no point of view
toward (1) looks at moon signs
question
Both are 11% (1)traditional: 12% (1) traditional: for personal use,
good ancestors made it keeps you in touch with land and
 work and we should crops and is more cost efficient
 take advantage of (1)nontraditional: for
 their knowledge commercial use, can farm more
 (l)modem: makes land, less labor intense and get
 good yields and more done
 modem varieties (1)don't know difference
 could help us between traditional and modem
 farming
 (_)both have advantages
 depicts actual number or participants with this response