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:
Returning Condors to the PNW (Yurok)
Indigenous fire management
Improving farming with biodiversity in Peruvian cassava
Water Poisoning in Japan, First Nations, and San Francisco
Mayan Forest Garden
Urban Farm: Detroit
Science for a Hungry World
Black Philanthropists Tackle Hunter in the Pandemic
Urban Farm: Dallas
Blossoms of Hope, Oregon
'Homecoming' trailer
Heritage Crops in New Mexico
First Nations students in Sustainability Careers
Ash trees - Akwesasne Mohawk
Salmon - Lummi Nation
Water - Campo Kumeyaay Nation
Wild Rice - Leech Lake Ojibwe
White Earth Land Recovery Project
American Indian Foods Guide
Reflection
Students choose 1 from 3 sets of prompts.