studies
Norse attempts and relationship
-try to settle with the inuit but weren't welcome due to differences, conflict occurred
-Norse attempted settlement in Newfoundland but failed by the Beothuk and climate changes that they couldn't adapt-
- they started to trade system like the french
English attempts and relationship with indigenous
-wanted to settle in Canada -
-distance themselves of other religion- ---land greedy for profit
1 were not Catholic
2 were criminals
3 enslave farmers
created treaty agreements
The French, settlements and relations
came for the fur trade
- intermarried and didn't settle in Canada -often adapted indigenous language and laws
-try to fight for land by surrendered to
England
indigenous origin stories
1 -focusses on holism, and connections
2- materialism reality
3- experience knowledge is the highest
4- relational knowledge, learning from one another
Western scientific origin stories
1-Reductionism, part by part
1.5 - mechanistic reality
2-univeral knowledge, principles
3- relations are indirect that require scientific reasoning by math, physics, and chemistry
mentioning how the earth is a mother and how mother earth takes care of us, and must show respect and gratitude
The Land is feminine
all natural resources have a soul, purpose of mind, so treated with respect
the land is alive
no one is above or blow, we treated all the same
all beings are equal
looking forward and back 140 years to great grand parents to great grandkids
seventh generation
how humans, animals and plant share the same ways of living and cycles
all things are interconnected
is being a leader of your own actions, duty and consequences to people, animals and plants and yourself
responsibility
reusing till it's cycled of where it came from (putting it back)
cyclical thinking
rules in one's behaviour to the land and society and shows respect equal in balance
natural law
is giving back an offering to show respect and balance
reciprocity
settlers perspective on colonization
1-conquest (taking over)
2-suppression (banning)
3-replacement/assimilation (changes identities)
4-wealth creation(profit)
5-forgetting, mininzation (misleading)
indigenous perspective on colonization
1- steady state (normal days)
2- incursion (approch of new ways)
3- domination (wars, indian act, residential)
4- internal colonization (after effects)
5- decolonization (fighting back what was before)
cartesian worldview
1- body and mind
2-body of matter without consquences
3 - disrespect the world and life
4- humans are the creators
5-Land is not essential
6- power of self interest
indigenous worldview
1- everything is living
2- world is sacred and the life within
3- powerful teachings about the elements in the world
4- animals are relatives
5- no power over another
6- failure of respect comes with consequences