FOR400Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Oka Crisis, Iroquois
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For400y - lecture 4: ohenton karithwatehkwen: the words that come before all else. Before do anything when gathered, some one gives greetings of thanksgiving. Mother earth, soil has all the colours of our skin. Any people who live on the land have traditional ecological knowledge. You gain knowledge and understanding of the place. Myth: tek is being lost and needs to be saved. We have jellyware (not hardware/software) in our minds. Males are really fast, get in and out and run away. Climate changes, so the river is different now than before. Science is a way of looking at the world. Hunter knows where to hunt from collecting data about where deer comes from. All journal publications are stories but written in a different way. Stories describe the way the land looks. What does the story tell me about the land. But we have other tools that scientists don"t have.
