Vigus 1
Precious Vigus Course Number:25228
Professor Lara
2/2/17
We have to know Our Stories
I read the article “Indigenous Knowledge Recovery Is Indigenous Empowerment” by WAZIYATAWIN Angela Wilson. This article is explaining to the people as to how because Indigenous people lost their knowledge of their own culture and worth due to colonialism. It tells us that we still can change things if we wanted to because things aren't as bad as they used to be, but colonialism still exists. Indigenous knowledge recovery to me is basically is Indigenous people learning where they came from, how colonizers took their culture away, and …show more content…
This is important because in order for us to get real knowledge of Indigenous background, we have to learn about it in our own communities and we have to learn from people whose ancestors and actually went through struggles and faced challenges like colonization. If we do not know where the struggle started, we can't do anything to fix it because we have to know what happened in the past. Angela Wilson provides evidence to support her claim by using her own personal quotes and using different articles and specific facts that prove that she is right about how colonization ruined Indigenous people's traditions and culture and brainwashed them into believing that there way of doing things were worthless. What stood out to me from the article was when she talked about how Indigenous communities are having a language loss crisis. It stated how some languages are already extinct and how some almost are. This bothered me because that shouldn't have happened in the first place, and it is the colonizers fault that they are forgetting their culture.
Precious Vigus Course Number:25228
Professor Lara
2/2/17
We have to know Our Stories
I read the article “Indigenous Knowledge Recovery Is Indigenous Empowerment” by WAZIYATAWIN Angela Wilson. This article is explaining to the people as to how because Indigenous people lost their knowledge of their own culture and worth due to colonialism. It tells us that we still can change things if we wanted to because things aren't as bad as they used to be, but colonialism still exists. Indigenous knowledge recovery to me is basically is Indigenous people learning where they came from, how colonizers took their culture away, and …show more content…
This is important because in order for us to get real knowledge of Indigenous background, we have to learn about it in our own communities and we have to learn from people whose ancestors and actually went through struggles and faced challenges like colonization. If we do not know where the struggle started, we can't do anything to fix it because we have to know what happened in the past. Angela Wilson provides evidence to support her claim by using her own personal quotes and using different articles and specific facts that prove that she is right about how colonization ruined Indigenous people's traditions and culture and brainwashed them into believing that there way of doing things were worthless. What stood out to me from the article was when she talked about how Indigenous communities are having a language loss crisis. It stated how some languages are already extinct and how some almost are. This bothered me because that shouldn't have happened in the first place, and it is the colonizers fault that they are forgetting their culture.