GEG 2108 Lecture 15: GEG2108 Lecture 15: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): Whose Sovereignty

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEG 2108
• Professor: Brenda Mac Dougall

Document Summary

Tek has only been around in environmental studies for about 25 years. The interest is due to the rise of interest in environmentalism. Scientists are talking with aboriginal elders for tek. A cumulative body of knowledge, belief, and practice, evolving by accumulation of. Tek and handed down through generations through traditional songs, stories and beliefs. It concerns the relationship between living beings and their environment. All types of knowledge about the environment derived from experience and traditions of a particular group of people (peter usher) The oral traditions of indigenous people contains tek. Fundamental difference between tek and science: tek has a strong religious root to it. Despite the fact that aboriginal people have become more and more christian, they have not lost this body of knowledge. they simply adapt it. John franklin was commissioned by the british royal navy to complete mapping of the arctic, to locate the northwest passage. Had 2 state of the art ships.