INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Deskaheh, Enculturation
11 Apr 2017
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Estimated 370 million greater than the population of the us. Light of civilization dispelling the darkness of barbarism. The native people are in the corner with the animals equated with animals. Indigenous peoples in the americas lost 90% of the population from first contact to the early 19th century. Common agreement: descended from pre-colonial or pre-invasion inhabitants of a region, have suffered from economic and political marginalization as a group. No comprehensive list of who are the indigenous people of the world. Contrasting ways of knowing about and understanding the world, different epistemologies. Indigenous people suggest it is they who are hosting newcomers: don"t see themselves as downtrodden or in need of help. View land & environment as something to be used. Measure wealth in what one can give away to others. Forms of marginalization: loss of territory: in addition to loss of life, inability to practice good stewardship of land, maintain traditional ways of life.
