Indigenous Groups
This group in New Zealand won the legal case to give the Whanganui River personhood.
Who are the Maori?
These are the four ToK frameworks through which one can consider the nature of knowledge and how it is perceived.
What is scope, perspective, methodology, and ethics?
WEIRD stands for five words.
What is Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic?
When the Chinese took control of this region, it forced the Dalai Lama into India along with thousands of others.
What is Tibet?
This is the oldest game played with a rubber ball. It was played by the Azrecs and Mayans.
What is Ulama?
Who are the Kogi?
The Kogi could be seen as a patriarchal society which is resistant to change. This perspective is limited. It is dependent upon _________.
What is context?
In indigenous societies there is often a focus on environmental conservation. There is another term for this.
What is stewardship?
This term reflects the belief that the U.S. had a responsibility to civilize, educate, and tame the the Native Americans of the West in their own likeness.
What is manifest destiny?
These are the two primary factors of ethnocide.
What is loss of language and power.
This indigenous group lives in the most northern regions of Canada and the Artic.
Who are the Inuit?
These 3 aspects describe the scope of indigenous knowledge according to United Nations.
What is self-identify as indigenous, have a connection to the land pre-colonialization, and have a separate set of cultural, political, and linguistic practices from the dominant society.
A scientific perspective of the natural world is objective and reductionist, but an indigenous perspective would be relational and ________________.
What is holistic?
Indigenous land in Brazil is supposed to be protected but with the increase in the price of gold many illegal miners have devastated groups such as the Yanomami through 3 ways.
What are viruses, pollution of the water, and violence?
Globalization has impacted indigenous cultures in multiple ways. Name three.
What is loss of language, cultural imperialism, a decrease in global diversity.
This culture lives at the base of the Himalayan mountains and is primarily an agricultural society.
Who are the Ladakhi?
"Schooling the World" contrasts two educational models-- agrarian and western. Agrarian and spiritual education does not have this classification which can change the identity of the individual and the community. This is an ethical issue.
What is failure?
This is the term given to the belief that all animate (trees, insects, animals) and inanimate objects (rocks, rivers) have a soul.
What is animism?
President Obama established this monument in Utah to represents to protect the ancestral homeland of 4 tribal nations and the personhood of one of their relatives.
What is Bears Ears?
If you enjoy snowshoeing or canoeing, both of these items were created by this indigenous group.
Who are the Inuit?
This indigenous group was the first to interact with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Myth can be a form of close observation and scientific fact. Maori myth has told of this animal purposely setting fire to the brush in order to hunt its prey more easily.
What is Kerrk, the fire hawk?
The sum total of all thoughts and intuitions, myths and beliefs, ideas and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination.
What is the ethnospere?
There was a belief among Eurocentric countries that it was their "responsibility" to educate and reform the "savage". This had a name.
What is the "White man's burden"?
There are genetic and culture reasons for marrying outside one's community.
What is exogamy?