INDG-2316EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Usufruct

• School: Laurentian
• Department: Indigenous Relations
• Course: INDG-2316EL
• Professor: Lorrilee Mc Gregor

Document Summary

Have provisions to respect and protect traditional knowledge but lack mechanisms to do it. Characteristics of traditional knowledge scientific, empirical, experimental and systematic. Knowledge system is continually being revised; things are expected to change in predictable and unpredictable ways. Traditional" refers to the social process of learning rather than antiquity. Elders and traditional knowledge holders speak of traditional knowledge as a way of life. Community recognition of trap lines, rice boss", family hunting, grazing, or harvesting areas. The connection between the land and the group lies in the ceremony, spiritual instruction, naming, travel knowledge, and intergenerational residence. People belong to the land, land does not belong to people. Three basic concepts govern relations between colonial settlers" and indigenous nations: The cultural practice of spreading christianity and, later, western science and other forms of western thought;