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Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK

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Author: 
Valerie Goodness
Year: 
2015

Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK

Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK
Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK

Watersheds and Indigenous Peoples know no borders. Canada’s watershed management affects America’s watersheds, and vice versa. As Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper launches significant First Nations termination contrivance he negotiates legitimizing Canada’s settler colonialism under the guise of “progress.” Progress, through Harper’s political illusion, provides inadequate allocation of money for water and wastewater systems on Canada’s reservations. Almost every natural resource development currently operating or planned is within 200 kilometers of a First Nation community and on its traditional lands. Harper has laid off public natural resource managers and environmental protection personnel and has weakened policies for conservation, again in the name of progress. Idle No More is about many things, but first and foremost it represents a unified effort to protect Mother Earth. We will talk about the evidence of watershed degradation due to American progress too…. But first let’s talk about watersheds...

decolonization, ecosystem sustainability, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), traditional knowledge, watershed restoration
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Cultural Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources, Intergovernmental Relations, Land/Jurisdiction

Goodness, Valerie. "Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK." Indian Country Today Media Network. January 30, 2015. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/first-nations/idle-no-more..., accessed February 2, 2015)

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