This environmental essay will define the traditional spiritual beliefs of the Nuu-chah-nulth that are defined in the protest culture for the preservation of local forests in Clayoquot Sound. In the late 20th century and early 21st century, the continuing discourse of colonialism and modernity have been the driving forces of corporate logging, which has threatened the natural environment in this region of British Columbia. In this manner, protest culture of the 20th and 21st century have come to recognize the spiritual values of egalitarian aspects of the natural environment, which the Nuu-chah-nulth have incorporated as a method of deflecting unregulated logging in the Clayoquot Sound. These traditional values are the foundation of tribal protest
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This type of community-based movement attracted NGOs, such as Greenpeace, as part of a larger international movement that celebrated indigenous ideology as it relates to the natural world. The protest movement began to expand from a locally organized tribal protest group to a much larger international protest movement through these “modern” NGO organizations helped to support their cause against the logging companies: “In the network of local environmental NGOs and activists that helped to catalyze the Clayoquot movement” (Sommer, 2015, p. 273). This is an important development that forced the Canadian federal government and the logging companies to begin negotiations due to political pressure against them from the protest movement. However, this process was a long-term problem due to the massive financial and corporate power of logging companies and government agencies that continually obstructed any real progress to cooperate with the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. In this way, a solution-based analysis of this conflict can now be evaluated in the context of traditional and modern aspects of protest movements in the protection of Clayoquot Sound in the 1990s and into 21st …show more content…
Negotiations can be seen to take on various aspects of traditional rights for the Nuu-chah-nulth through an indigenous naturalist perspective, yet not without the “modern” aspects of land management for loggers that restrict them from over-logging or destroying the land. In this manner, the collaboration of the various stakeholders became a powerful statement on the effectiveness of indigenous protests movements in Clayoquot Sound, which transformed the statist/corporate view of natural resources in terms of the logging industry.
Finally, the logging companies eventually had to cooperate with the local tribes of Clayoquot Sound, which resulted in a highly politicized respect for the spiritual traditions of the First Peoples. These negotiations revolved around a growing respect for indigenous environmental views, which sought to countermand the “modern” views of natural resources as something more than a source of profit and production. This is how the “traditional” view became a more powerful version of the stakeholder process for the Nuu-chah-nulth
This type of community-based movement attracted NGOs, such as Greenpeace, as part of a larger international movement that celebrated indigenous ideology as it relates to the natural world. The protest movement began to expand from a locally organized tribal protest group to a much larger international protest movement through these “modern” NGO organizations helped to support their cause against the logging companies: “In the network of local environmental NGOs and activists that helped to catalyze the Clayoquot movement” (Sommer, 2015, p. 273). This is an important development that forced the Canadian federal government and the logging companies to begin negotiations due to political pressure against them from the protest movement. However, this process was a long-term problem due to the massive financial and corporate power of logging companies and government agencies that continually obstructed any real progress to cooperate with the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. In this way, a solution-based analysis of this conflict can now be evaluated in the context of traditional and modern aspects of protest movements in the protection of Clayoquot Sound in the 1990s and into 21st …show more content…
Negotiations can be seen to take on various aspects of traditional rights for the Nuu-chah-nulth through an indigenous naturalist perspective, yet not without the “modern” aspects of land management for loggers that restrict them from over-logging or destroying the land. In this manner, the collaboration of the various stakeholders became a powerful statement on the effectiveness of indigenous protests movements in Clayoquot Sound, which transformed the statist/corporate view of natural resources in terms of the logging industry.
Finally, the logging companies eventually had to cooperate with the local tribes of Clayoquot Sound, which resulted in a highly politicized respect for the spiritual traditions of the First Peoples. These negotiations revolved around a growing respect for indigenous environmental views, which sought to countermand the “modern” views of natural resources as something more than a source of profit and production. This is how the “traditional” view became a more powerful version of the stakeholder process for the Nuu-chah-nulth