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
What is fire called in Ininiw?
Iskotew
What is earth/soil called in Ininiw?
Aski
Who is at the centre of a medicine wheel?
Creator
Draw the Medicine Wheel:
Slide 3 of Ininiw Worldview
What are the four components of the medicine wheel?
- Mental (Elder)
- Emotional (Adult)
- Physical (Child)
- Spiritual (Baby)
Whitest the order of the Ininiw Societal Structure?
Children (at centre), elders, women, then men (outer circle)
What is the role of Elders in the Ininiw Societal Structure?
They took care of and taught the children.
What is the role of Women in the Ininiw Societal Structure?
Took care of the home, children, and Elders
What is the role of Men in the Ininiw Societal Structure?
The provider and protector.
What key process guides boys and girls to join men and women in their societal role?
Rites of passage
Draw the complex Medicine Wheel:
Slide 5
What are the traditional knowledge components of elders (mental) within the medicine wheel?
- Wisdom
- Peace Keepers
- Human interaction
- Storytellers, etc.
What are the traditional knowledge components of baby (spiritual) within the medicine wheel?
- Spirituality
- Dreams
- Medicine
- Ceremonies
What are the traditional knowledge components of adult (emotional) within the medicine wheel?
- Trappers
- Hunters
- Tools
- Plants
What are the traditional knowledge components of child (physical) within the medicine wheel?
- Explorers
- Guides
- Rivers
- Geography etc.
What is the circular flow of the medicine wheel roles?
Spiritual World -> Physical World -> Ecosystem World -> Human World
What is the spiritual understanding of nipi (water)?
Nipi as Creation is sacred.
What is the physical responsibility of Ininiuw to Nipi?
To take care of water through governance.
What role does Nipi in the ecosystem world of the medicine wheel?
Nipi is part of Creation and enables maintenance of Aski (earth/soil).
What role does Nipi play in the ‘human world’ of the medicine wheel?
Nipi enables the health and well-being of the Ininiw.
