Socio Political Landscape(ORALITY)

Question 1

Orality defniniton

Answer 1

-Verbal Expression of thoughts and ideas in cultures that are mostly or are unfamiliar with literacy

Question 2

Aboriginal cultures and orality
What are they shifting to
What is different with oral knowledge

Answer 2

-Aboriginal cultures are Oral cultures
-undergoing a shift to literacy
-oral knowledge stored and transmitted differently

Question 3

Oral Stories
What do they provide guidance on?
What structure do they describe?
How is information fixed?

Answer 3

-Pass on information through stories
-meaningful information ‘fixed’ through narratives in stories
-provide guidance on living well
“markers along the path”
-appropriate relationships with land and living environment
-describes the structures of conciousness found in cultures that use literacy minimally

Question 4

working with stories is ______, not static

Answer 4

dynamic

Question 5

the role of elders with oral stories

Answer 5

to pass info to younger generations through stories

Question 6

Oral Tradition

Answer 6

-Form of human communication where knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is recieved, percieved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another through speech or song

Question 7

How does indigenous language carry original concepts
what results in language erosion?

Answer 7

-language carries the value system and system of human relationships
-Language carries culture and identity
-unique words and phrases keyed to activities and places –> this is why the loss of access to places causes language erosion

Question 8

Placenames

Answer 8

-tells the history, political significance of an area
-relay cultural information
-useful indicators for ecological change

Question 9

Examples of placenames

Answer 9

whitefish lake
katlodeh(willowgrass river)

Question 10

placename mapping research and TLU

Answer 10

TLU - traditional land use
-powerful tool in land rights negotiation
-negates colonial erasure of replacing indigenous names with european ones

Question 11

Skywoman
what is it about,
what type of story is it about

Answer 11

-oral story
story about:
Governance
Laws
How to survive
How to get along
a creation story

Question 12

sweetgrass word

Answer 12

wiingaashk, bound at the end and divided into thirds

Question 13

Turtle island

Answer 13

-referenced in the Skywoman story
-arose in Great Lake region
-all landmasses arose from mud on turtles back

Question 14

skywoman plot

Answer 14

-Skywoman falls from skyworld
-geese broke her fall above the water
-turtle let her on his back
-muskrat brings back mud, sacrifice
-earth formed from mud on turtle bacj
-skywoman scatters plants–> wiingaashk first to grow
-by scattering plants helps animals

Question 15

indigenous knowledge is

Answer 15

Multidimentional

Question 16

what are some different conceptual approaches in indigenous culture

Answer 16

-Energetic nature of reality
-4 aspects of humans
-we are all connected
-animacy of non humans
-importance of sharing
-stewardship

Question 17

what are the 4 aspects of humans

Answer 17

mind body spirit emotion

Question 18

our way of life

Answer 18

Gonaowo

Question 19

Law

Answer 19

How we imagine and manage ourselves both individual and collectively

Question 20

indigenous law

Answer 20

-building citizen ship, responsibility, and governance
-challenging oppressions
-safety and protection
-lands and resources
and external political relations with other indigenous peoples as well as the state

Question 21

indigenous legal traditions

Answer 21

-deeply rooted
-historically conditioned attitudes about law and the role of law in society
-the proper organization and operation of a legal system

Question 22

Ayook

Answer 22

law, custom or prescedent

Question 23

legal system

Answer 23

state centered legal system in which law is managed by professionals

Question 24

5 sources of law

Answer 24

Sacred law
deliberative law
natural
customs
positive

Question 25

Sacred Law

Answer 25

creator and treaty rights

Question 26

deliberative law

Answer 26

talking circles, discussion

Question 27

natural law

Answer 27

relationship with natural world, environment

Question 28

customs law

Answer 28

marriages, family relations, land claim agreements
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Question 29

positive

Answer 29

basically just like regulations, codes

Question 30

indigenous law enacted in

Answer 30

formal publicc places

Question 31

potlatch
when were they outlawed and by what

Answer 31

-means “giveaway”
-ceremonies where people do giveaways and show stewardship eachother and to the land
-outlawed 1880 by indian act and artifacts confiscated
-held underground until 1950s when unreferenced from indian act