GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, Quebec Agreement, Traditional Ecological Knowledge
1 Nov 2016
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Franklin failed because he refused to accept the idea that people he though of as savages, knew something. Use this mission as a way to state sovereignty in the arctic. Nobody will know the exact location of the ship due to international security reasons. Scientists are partnering with indigenous communities in order to understand climate change. Increasing body of literature and science about tek. Indigenous movement: introducing indigenous knowledge to school systems. Cumulative body of knowledge, belief, and practice, evolving by accumulation of tek and handed down through generations through traditional songs, stories, and beliefs. Concerns the relationship between living beings and their environment. All types of knowledge about the environment derived from experience and traditional of a particular group of people. Tek has a strong religious component, different than science. Deemed as a an unreliable form of knowledge by scientific society until 1980s. Ex: franklin expedition in the arctic -> harpoons, sunglasses.
