ES 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnoecology, Biocultural Diversity, Athabaskan Languages

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ES 321
• Professor: Lantz

Document Summary

The history of ethnoecology highlights the importance of interrogating power relations and understanding the legacies of colonialism. Apache is a division of the athapascan language. Water lies with mud in an open container: Charles explains the place-names paint a picture of the location as it was viewed by the ancestors. Juniper tree stands alone: people were devoted to their land which provided them with the corn to survive. What"s (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the state(cid:373)e(cid:374)t? (cid:862)apa(cid:272)he (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)sta(cid:374)tl(cid:455) that all the histo(cid:396)(cid:455) i(cid:374) p(cid:396)i(cid:374)t misrepresents them, yet so far no apache autobiographer or even rough chronicler has e(cid:373)e(cid:396)ged(cid:863). La(cid:374)guage (cid:271)a(cid:396)(cid:396)ie(cid:396), apa(cid:272)he fi(cid:374)d (cid:396)eadi(cid:374)g to (cid:271)e a(cid:374) isolati(cid:374)g a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) so the(cid:455) tea(cid:272)h history orally and through demonstration, chronological order does not seem as important as where something happened. Colonialism has made our knowledge to put it into the written form to ensure it is available for future needs. Language family: a group of several closely related languages that originated from a common proto-language.