Sustainable Strategies (TEK) - environmental justice & indigenous knowledge

Students sign up for 1 of 19 videos, articles, or websites that feature sustainability strategies that come from local knowledge, indigenous peoples, and Black philanthropists and entrepreneurs.

They analyze the source based on how it affects the ecosystem, then reflect on 3 prompts they choose from a list of 9 in Google Forms.

For each slide, student answers these questions:

1. What people and groups are involved and what is their goal?

2. What does this source tell you about the cultural values about food, land, and community? How does one generation trade knowledge with the other?

3. List the crops, organisms, and methods mentioned/shown.

4. How do these people blend past and present knowledge to heal the future? How effective do you think they are or will be?

Strategies included are:

1. Returning Condors to the PNW (Yurok)

2. Indigenous fire management

3. Improving farming with biodiversity in Peruvian cassava

4. Water Poisoning in Japan, First Nations, and San Francisco

5. Mayan Forest Garden

6. Urban Farm: Detroit

7. Science for a Hungry World

8. Black Philanthropists Tackle Hunter in the Pandemic

9. Urban Farm: Dallas

10. Blossoms of Hope, Oregon

11. 'Homecoming' trailer

12. Heritage Crops in New Mexico

13. First Nations students in Sustainability Careers

14. Ash trees - Akwesasne Mohawk

15. Salmon - Lummi Nation

16. Water - Campo Kumeyaay Nation

17. Wild Rice - Leech Lake Ojibwe

18. White Earth Land Recovery Project

19. American Indian Foods Guide

Reflection

Reflection: Students choose 1 from 3 sets of prompts.

Students choose 1 from 3 sets of prompts.