DCC 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Beaver, No Worries, Family Values

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EAS 1101

October 10th, 2017

Lecture Nine

Metis Culture and Worldview Presentation

“The Women who Married the Beaver” – Story about relationships. Young women goes

out one day from her family, to collect berries and do work for family, she meets a young

man who she thinks is attractive. He thinks she is attractive, he invites her back to go to

the lodge and be his wife. She is interested, thinks he is charming agreeing to go. His

condition is that once they go to his lodge, she cannot have contact or reach out to

other people again. Agreeing, living and having children with him, in return for giving up

her family he provides her with everything. Food, beautiful clothes, hunting trips returns

with, jewelry, pots, mirrors, etc. She lives a happy life with this man. Only thing she

notices as odd, is he disappears for periods of time. As children grow up they do the

same. She never breaks her vows however. One day while growing old and hair turning

white and kids growing up – she is sitting at the lodge and thinking about when he

returns. Subsequently he does not return. She is there for weeks by herself, she

realizes he is not coming back. One day at the lodge she hears voices and she starts

calling first time interacting since getting married. Human men break through the lodge

and they pull her out of the lodge and at that moment she realizes she’s been living in a

beaver lodge and her husband and children were beavers. She realizes she must share

with her people the responsibility to those animals. Cataloguing those types of behavior

–when he went off he was being hunted. So when he got things, it was gifts human had

left him. She talks about nurturing the relationship to the people, successful hunters and

good relatives they have to manage their relationship to them.

About building the relationship and capacity of non-human beings to animals. The

protocols to hunting and human beings – treating animals properly you treat your people

properly.

Story not uncommon – see other kinds of human animal marriages. All about

nurturing relationships and being a better human being by nurturing relationships to

other beings. Reflects a worldview.

Worldview

•Descriptive model of the world based on experience

•A mystical explanation of the world

•A conception of the future – where are you heading

•The values and ethics of people – In the story of the beaver, it is about being a

good relative.

•A sense of how those values should influence human actions – ritual – Shaping

the way you read, think about politics, respond to people, and how you make

sense of things.

•Knowledge of intellect

Different cultures have different perspectives as they frame it on religion, spiritual

teachings and experience that shape the conceptualizations.

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Although it is unconscious, difficult to articulate ones understanding of the world.

Starting to do that, can help however the way we shape and think about the world.

Culture is not something you do – something that you live. Outward and external –

easily recognized to be someone else’s or their own. The outward expressions are

visual symbols of what that culture might express. Though, that is not values and the

way you live.

All my Relations as Worldview

-Family as a way of life - Family extends to a natural world – physically come

from a relative, land, water, animals, plants. One has responsibility to be a good

relative to your natural environment.

Indigenous culture thinks about who are all extended alliances – ie. traditional

adoption, in-laws)

-Reciprocal Family Model (B. Medicine) – If one has something and the other

relative does not – it is the responsibility to share it without question. If you

cannot, you help. No worries about being paid back, or discussion about when

that would take place. That is generosity because you are being a good relative

and when you need something it will come back to you whether by that person,

or their children or their parents. To be stingy is not a good relative. Opposite of

being a relative – enemy which is dangerous, feel unsafe, indigenous people

frame the difference between insiders and outsiders.

-How to be a human being (E.C. Deloria: Scholar in 1940 wrote several books,

wrote one speaking of Indians and waterlily talking about traditional values and

family values – and how they construct their world) - Adhering to these values

above. Definition of being a human being is being a good relative. Does not

matter what you are, if you have good relations you are a good human being.

-Responsibility (as opposed to rights based discourse) – Being a good human

being is what you are supposed to live up to. This is the standard and what you

are to aspire for. What you spend your life trying to do. What are your

responsibility to your husband, wife, relatives? Once you know what these are

you know where you fit in your social order.

-Respect (for each other but also for what’s around us) First responsibility is to be

respectful to others on how they think, do things. As long as it does not harm

others, allow them to make their own choices.

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The women who married the beaver story about relationships. Young women goes out one day from her family, to collect berries and do work for family, she meets a young man who she thinks is attractive. He thinks she is attractive, he invites her back to go to the lodge and be his wife. She is interested, thinks he is charming agreeing to go. His condition is that once they go to his lodge, she cannot have contact or reach out to other people again. Agreeing, living and having children with him, in return for giving up her family he provides her with everything. Food, beautiful clothes, hunting trips returns with, jewelry, pots, mirrors, etc. She lives a happy life with this man. Only thing she notices as odd, is he disappears for periods of time. As children grow up they do the same.

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Three-Dollar Chicken: The Ethical Dilemma of the Food Pantry Black Market By Albert SamahaWednesday, June 19, 2013

"How much? How much?" asks a reporter in a checkered button-down and a pair of Air Jordans. He's pointing at a box of Rice Krispies cereal.

The elderly Chinese woman in the blue fleece picks up a plastic bag with two cereal boxes and says, holding up three fingers, "Three dollars! Three dollars!" She stands in a row beside eight other elderly Chinese women, behind a bus stop on Market Street near the corner of Seventh. All of them have paper bags and plastic bags and metal carts at their feet, all filled with food: Juice cartons, bags of coffee, packaged pretzel bites, and a bunch of other items.

"Nah, I don't need two. Just one.One dollar? One dollar?" counters the reporter. But the woman pushes the bag into his chest. The woman next to her in a green visor, sensing the opportunity, steps between the bartering pair holding a single box of cereal. "One dollar! One dollar!" she says.

The reporter furrows his brow, in deep thought. "You got that in chocolate?" he asks.

The underground food bazaar is in full swing. It's 1 p.m. and the lunchtime crowd bustles by. Several people stop to peruse the selection. No better food deal in the city. It's cheap because the women got most of the goods at food pantries around the city. So a dollar for a box of cereal is a dollar of profit.

The people who run the food pantries are certainly aware of this. While the majority of the tens of thousands of San Franciscans who receive the charitable goods take the food straight to their refrigerators, cupboards, and dining tables, there are others who instead take the food to Market Street. This creates a complex ethical dilemma, of course. On one hand, the sellers are exploiting the charity to turn a profit. But, then again, the sellers who benefit from this underground market, low-income immigrants who barely speak English, are the exact demographic the pantries are trying to help.

"It's a question for people to ask themselves about what they think a gift means," says Sara Miles, a spokesperson for St. Gregory's food pantry service. "If I gave you a gift, is it yours to do with what you want?"

The food pantries' range of sentiments illustrates the complexities of the dilemma. As Amy Jones, a spokesperson for Fill Up America, says, "All we can do on our end is try to do the most good we can for people in San Francisco. And if they're choosing to sell the food for whatever reason, that's between them and their conscience." Blaine Johnson, of San Francisco Food Bank, is less ambivalent. "The majority of our donations come from individual people. Their intention is that we feed people, not that we enable folks to have a side business to resell our food."

Miles, however, appreciates the impulses that created the underground charity food market. "It's not as if the reason people are hungry is that the food bank doesn't have enough food," she says. "I don't think that this is a problem. I think the problem is that it's impossible for poor people to live in San Francisco."

Some food pantries give out fliers discouraging the reselling of the goods. Some try to identify the offenders, warning them to stop before they are prohibited from the handouts. But the market lives on.

And as the reporter turns down the $1 cereal, he immediately encounters more offers. "Chicken!" says a woman in a white jacket, pointing to a whole, raw chicken wrapped in plastic at her feet.

"Chicken?" says the man. "How old? How old? Week old?"

"No, no," the woman replies. "This morning!This morning!"

"So it's been laying out here in the sun all day?"

The woman chuckles."Three dollars."

A police officer on a bike rolls past, carefully maneuvering around the crowd of buyers before accelerating up the sidewalk. He barely glances at the scene. What the women are doing is definitely illegal peddling without a permit, a violation of municipal code 869. And when police dole out citations to them, the officers confiscate the goods and re-donate them to the pantries. But enforcement, says SFPD officer Albie Esparza, is based on complaints, which are rare and usually stem from nearby business owners. "If there are no calls for service," he says, "we respond to more serious crimes in progress."

The underground food bazaar, after all, operates on a block littered with peddlers without a permit. This is Mid-Market, home to the city's vibrant outlaw bazaar. A dozen feet from the women, a man hawks old VHS tapes and beat-up ball caps on a picnic blanket. An older woman sells bootlegged DVDs. A middle-aged man offers discounted jewelry. Another man sells bus transfer passes. Another cigarettes. And then there's the pack of young men at the corner of Market and Jones Street slanging weed. The women with bags of food are hustlers on a block full of hustlers. Capitalists seizing the chance to improve their lot.

After the reporter passes on the chicken, the woman in the green visor waves him over. She pulls from her bag a bottle of Sierra Nevada beer. The reporter's eyes, naturally, widen, and he smiles. Food pantries don't serve beer. "Two dollars!" says the woman. The reporter peeks in her bag and sees a second bottle. "Two dollars for both!" he says. "Two fifty," the woman counters. And he nods.

The woman drops the bottles into a red plastic bag and hands it to the man. She doesn't charge 10 cents. The reporter gives her three dollar bills. But as she fishes for the change, he points to a container of apple juice and says, "I'll take the apple juice and you keep that." The woman nods vigorously.

Suddenly there is a shout. "She took my food! She took my food!" One of the elderly women has become frantic. Several witnesses eagerly announce what happened: A "community ambassador," working for a local economic development agency to help monitor Market Street, snagged a juice container from the lady's cart.

"You shouldn't be selling this!" the ambassador, a young woman, says to her. "This isn't right!" The crowd, drawn to the spectacle and expanding by the second, begins to choose sides. "They shouldn't be doing that," a middle-aged woman whispers to the man beside her. "What is this, a police state?" another voice exclaims.

The buzz of debate grows louder the ambassador justifying her action, the seller repeating, "She took my food," and the bystanders trying to sort out the philosophical conflict until a pair of police officers, walking their beat, arrives at the scene. They speak to the woman (in either Cantonese or Mandarin), then address her peers. The crowd watches as the women pack their goods into carts and file away, around the corner of Seventh Street, out of sight. Source: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/three-dollar-chicken-the-ethical-dilemma-of-the-food-pantry-black-market/Content?oid=2826417

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1. What are the relevant facts? (10 marks)

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Three-Dollar Chicken:

The Ethical Dilemma of the Food Pantry Black Market By Albert SamahaWednesday, Jun 19, 2013 "How much? How much?" asks a reporter in a checkered button-down and a pair of Air Jordans. He's pointing at a box of Rice Krispies cereal. The elderly Chinese woman in the blue fleece picks up a plastic bag with two cereal boxes and says, holding up three fingers, "Three dollars! Three dollars!" She stands in a row beside eight other elderly Chinese women, behind a bus stop on Market Street near the corner of Seventh. All of them have paper bags and plastic bags and metal carts at their feet, all filled with food: Juice cartons, bags of coffee, packaged pretzel bites, and a bunch of other items. "Nah, I don't need two. Just one.One dollar? One dollar?" counters the reporter. But the woman pushes the bag into his chest. The woman next to her in a green visor, sensing the opportunity, steps between the bartering pair holding a single box of cereal. "One dollar! One dollar!" she says. The reporter furrows his brow, in deep thought. "You got that in chocolate?" he asks. The underground food bazaar is in full swing. It's 1 p.m. and the lunchtime crowd bustles by. Several people stop to peruse the selection. No better food deal in the city. It's cheap because the women got most of the goods at food pantries around the city. So a dollar for a box of cereal is a dollar of profit. The people who run the food pantries are certainly aware of this. While the majority of the tens of thousands of San Franciscans who receive the charitable goods take the food straight to their refrigerators, cupboards, and dining tables, there are others who instead take the food to Market Street. This creates a complex ethical dilemma, of course. On one hand, the sellers are exploiting the charity to turn a profit. But, then again, the sellers who benefit from this underground market, low-income immigrants who barely speak English, are the exact demographic the pantries are trying to help. "It's a question for people to ask themselves about what they think a gift means," says Sara Miles, a spokesperson for St. Gregory's food pantry service. "If I gave you a gift, is it yours to do with what you want?" The food pantries' range of sentiments illustrates the complexities of the dilemma. As Amy Jones, a spokesperson for Fill Up America, says, "All we can do on our end is try to do the most good we can for people in San Francisco. And if they're choosing to sell the food for whatever reason, that's between them and their conscience." Blaine Johnson, of San Francisco Food Bank, is less ambivalent. "The majority of our donations come from individual people. Their intention is that we feed people, not that we enable folks to have a side business to resell our food." Miles, however, appreciates the impulses that created the underground charity food market. "It's not as if the reason people are hungry is that the food bank doesn't have enough food," she says. "I don't think that this is a problem. I think the problem is that it's impossible for poor people to live in San Francisco." Some food pantries give out fliers discouraging the reselling of the goods. Some try to identify the offenders, warning them to stop before they are prohibited from the handouts. But the market lives on. And as the reporter turns down the $1 cereal, he immediately encounters more offers. "Chicken!" says a woman in a white jacket, pointing to a whole, raw chicken wrapped in plastic at her feet. "Chicken?" says the man. "How old? How old? Week old?" "No, no," the woman replies. "This morning!This morning!" "So it's been laying out here in the sun all day?" The woman chuckles."Three dollars." A police officer on a bike rolls past, carefully maneuvering around the crowd of buyers before accelerating up the sidewalk. He barely glances at the scene. What the women are doing is definitely illegal â peddling without a permit, a violation of municipal code 869. And when police dole out citations to them, the officers confiscate the goods and re-donate them to the pantries. But enforcement, says SFPD officer Albie Esparza, is based on complaints, which are rare and usually stem from nearby business owners. "If there are no calls for service," he says, "we respond to more serious crimes in progress." The underground food bazaar, after all, operates on a block littered with peddlers without a permit. This is Mid-Market, home to the city's vibrant outlaw bazaar. A dozen feet from the women, a man hawks old VHS tapes and beat-up ball caps on a picnic blanket. An older woman sells bootlegged DVDs. A middle-aged man offers discounted jewelry. Another man sells bus transfer passes. Another cigarettes. And then there's the pack of young men at the corner of Market and Jones Street slanging weed. The women with bags of food are hustlers on a block full of hustlers. Capitalists seizing the chance to improve their lot. After the reporter passes on the chicken, the woman in the green visor waves him over. She pulls from her bag a bottle of Sierra Nevada beer. The reporter's eyes, naturally, widen, and he smiles. Food pantries don't serve beer. "Two dollars!" says the woman. The reporter peeks in her bag and sees a second bottle. "Two dollars for both!" he says. "Two fifty," the woman counters. And he nods. The woman drops the bottles into a red plastic bag and hands it to the man. She doesn't charge 10 cents. The reporter gives her three dollar bills. But as she fishes for the change, he points to a container of apple juice and says, "I'll take the apple juice and you keep that." The woman nods vigorously. Suddenly there is a shout. "She took my food! She took my food!" One of the elderly women has become frantic. Several witnesses eagerly announce what happened: A "community ambassador," working for a local economic development agency to help monitor Market Street, snagged a juice container from the lady's cart. "You shouldn't be selling this!" the ambassador, a young woman, says to her. "This isn't right!" The crowd, drawn to the spectacle and expanding by the second, begins to choose sides. "They shouldn't be doing that," a middle-aged woman whispers to the man beside her. "What is this, a police state?" another voice exclaims. The buzz of debate grows louder â the ambassador justifying her action, the seller repeating, "She took my food," and the bystanders trying to sort out the philosophical conflict until a pair of police officers, walking their beat, arrives at the scene. They speak to the woman (in either Cantonese or Mandarin), then address her peers. The crowd watches as the women pack their goods into carts and file away, around the corner of Seventh Street, out of sight. Source: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/three-dollar-chicken-the-ethical-dilemma-of-the-food-pantry-black-market/Content?oid=2826417

7. What action (s)would you suggest to San Francisco food bank providers to take?
(10 marks)

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