INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sea Turtle, Red Power Movement, Terra Nullius

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 2010
• Professor: Jennifer Adese

Document Summary

Different indigenous perspectives and european perspectives on jagged world. Views colliding (views that do not mesh with each other) The truth about stories, that is all we are. Comparing stories about indigenous peoples and the bible. Turtle island and sky woman, when the turtle was no longer needed he swam away and sky woman carried on to live her life. The stories depend on what part of canada we are in, people in edmonton do not follow the turtle island story because they have their own. Sue hill- sixth nations person: for the people of the long house, the story begins in the sky world. Respect for nature, humans, and everything we are trusted to care for. We live together, collective way of being. We are more dependent on animals than they are on us thomas king. Aboriginal 101- the relationship in 3 minutes (video cbc: stated that settlers thought that indigenous people were lost before they found the land.