11 - Indigenous Knoweldge Flashcards
What TEK?
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
What is IK?
Indigenous Knowledge
Define IK:
Traditional ecological knowledge represents experience acquired over thousands of years of direct human contact with the environment.
How is Indigenous knowledge considered in the federal impact assessment?
“It is helpful for Indigenous communities to share Indigenous knowledge with proponents and other participants in an impact assessment, starting early in the development of the project.
What six factors can IK be helpful toward in the IA process?
- Project Design
- Baseline data collection
- Identification of VEC
- Identification of appropriate spatial and temporal boundaries
- Identification of potential mitigation measures
- Considerations of monitoring procedures
What does the textbook identify as challenges in collecting and integrating IK?
- OCAP (Ownership, control, access and possession)
- Confidentiality
- Willingness to participate
- Capacity to participate
What are four challenges to collecting IK, identified by a practitioner?
- Activity
- Language
- Place
- Trust
What is the key conceptual challenge associated with IK?
When Indigenous peoples share how they are impacted, their perspectives are filtered through a western frame of reference that is not able to capture Indigenous peoples’ relational worldview.
What is the chronology of creation from an Ininiw worldview?
- Plants
- Animals
- Humans
Define “Teachings”, as referred to by the Ininiw peoples:
To be born with honesty, love, kindness, sharing, and later taught humility, trust and caring.
What is the ‘Great Law if Respect from our Kishe Manitou’ also known as?
Creator
What four senses are considered when talking about ‘Senses’?
- Sense Danger
- Sense of Direction
- Sense Distress
- Sense through dreams and visions
What are the four spiritual helpers in Creation?
- Air
- Water
- Fire
- Earth/soil/mineral
What is air called in Ininiw?
Notin
What is water called in Ininiw?
Nipi
