Indigenous peoples

Indigenous knowledge is a way of learning through non formal ways. This knowledge is almost never set in stone and is therefore passed by generations. In the hispanic culture for example there are traditions that include certain ways of speaking and events…

In the readings we have done in this class, I have learned about the traditions of ingenious people. The tradition that sticks out to me is that the Elders become the spiritual leaders of the community. Every person within the community looks to the Elders for advice, for culture, for wisdom. In this paper I will argue that Elders can help both aboriginal youth and others in a similar way, Elders have a way of bringing and keeping knowledge within communities. I think Elders could help by…

There is one new understanding covered in class that I struggle with the most. Listening to your personal survival story along with watching the movie We Were Children opened my eyes. Although residential schools were brought up in classes while I was high school we never went into any depth and were only given a general overview of how the schools were ran. My previous understanding of the events that took place in residential schools began and ended with children being forcibly removed from…

Divergence of indigenous cultures has been a prodigious topic of the 21st century. As of this exact moment we have over 7,000 distinct cultures but we are decreasing at a leisurely rate. You should take into consideration, that by dominating over other cultures, we are losing this divergence of indigenous cultures and it is withdrawing the benefits of cultures that contributes to the alleviating of the worlds complications. As a consequence of this decreasing, we as human beings need to call…

The High Artic Relocation of the 1950’s is a dark stain in Canadian history, it is one of many instances of systematic and institutionalized disenfranchisement by the Canadian government towards its Indigenous populations. Despite many positive strides by the Canadian government to make amends for its history of persecution and injustices, we have also continuously seen a deliberate attempt to downplay or cover-up many events that occurred. When analyzing primary sources 9.2 and 9.3 that deal…

Colonization is interpreted as conquering new lands and imposing one’s culture on the native people. Like the Europeans who seized the land of the Native Americans and enslaved many, Prospero is the invader of a magical land that he plans to rule. Using his superior knowledge he plans to enslave the original inhabitants and force them to do his bidding. Although there is no direct address to the New Word in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The play can be interpreted in context to the New World…

Indigenous people only speak for their country or their lineage because they don’t have the right to speak on many things outside of this. Country and land rightfully belongs to those that are intimately associated with it. However, when Western countries began colonizing land the more of it that they collected symbolized the power and strength of their country. Indigenous people and Western countries fundamental ideas of land and who owned it differed as they came from two very different…

In Nicholas Thomas’ book Colonialism Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government, he argues that colonialism is a cultural process and not a cultural system, meaning that colonialism isn’t simply a system of overstepping a foreign culture and manipulating it into your own in the ways of politics and economics, it’s a unique relationship involving signs, metaphors, and narratives. To truly understand the process and result of colonialism, we need to recognize and acknowledge there is a…

measures. The Amazon Basin and its forests are said to be in danger from ventures such as hydroelectric dams, and more specifically, illegal logging. The Ka’apor Indians, an indigenous society in Northern Brazil, have made a stand to try to stop illegal logging in their area. This community is a tribe of an estimated 2,200 people who are fighting for their forest as a militia with aggressive confrontation. As for the illegal activity in the past, the government hasn’t been able to control or…

with the indigenous tribes, they forced the latter to adopt the development communication style in order to make their requests more effective, and somehow ‘palatable’ for a western audience. I will develop my argument by focusing on the kind of language and narratives used by the Brazilian agencies to support the construction of Belo Monte plant, and later examine the actions taken by the local communities in response to the government’s claims. My aim is to underline how the indigenous groups…