1. Identify three principles that tend to guide how Native people view the human’s relationship with the earth. How do these compare to Western principles?
2. From your Week 13 module content: choose three values listed under ‘conquest’ and the opposite values listed under ‘collaboration’ and discuss them in relation to yourself. What is your personal understanding of these values? Why are they meaningful or important to you? Do you believe that your values and your world view have changed since the beginning of the course?
3. Have you decided to do anything differently in your life as a result of a new understanding that occurred? What parting words do you have for your classmates and for me?
Use the articles below to answer the questions
1. Indigenous Wisdom and Geopolitics (Global Brief, February 2011) http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2011/02/18/nature-spiri…
2. Indigenous perspectives on climate change needed (Science Daily, March 2005) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/05032…
3. Indigenous evidence of climate change (Science Daily, December 2009) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/09120…
4. Traditional Indigenous Fire Management techniques (Science Daily, November 2009) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/09112…
5. Aboriginal Hunting and Burning (Science Daily, May 2010) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/10050…
6. Traditional Inuit Knowledge Combines With Science to Shape Weather Insights (Science Daily, April 2010) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/10040…
7. Forest peoples’ rights to reducing emissions from deforestation (Science Daily, October 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/08101…
SCIENCE, ETHICS, & POLITICS:
1. Shane Bauer, Divorcing the US (New Internationalist, April 2008) http://www.newint.org/features/special/2008/04/01/…
2. Arise (Indigenous Peoples) (New Internationalist, April 2008) http://www.newint.org/features/2008/04/01/global-a…
3. What Columbia’s Kogi people can teach us about the environment (Guardian, 2013) https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/c…
4. The Kogi of Columbia: An urgent call from guardians of the heart of the world https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cult…
OPTIONAL:
1. Indiana Jones and the Plunder of Cultural Heritage (Science Daily, May 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/08052…
2. Newton et al. (2005) “Biological Diversity: Saving the Uniqueness of the World.” pp. 173-193
3. New Internationalist, July 2006) http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/01/fiction/… Valentim, Forest fever (and Marcelo Calazans)
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