RELG 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter Natives: General Idea, Matthew Coon Come, Lightning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: Eliza Rosenberg

Document Summary

The koyukon and their environmental ethics. What other americans can or cannot learn from. Also, spiritual beliefs are also manifested in their subsistence activities: koyukon: hunting and fishing, hopi: farming. Relationship with nature: heavily dependent on nature for life, therefore they do not control it. General principle of native american environmental ethics. The hopi and their environmental ethics: boreal forests are extremely delicates, and koyukon practices has helped the forest thrive. Animals were humans once, so we must treat them as we would a fellow human. This practice leads to stronger connections with nature. Everything is spiritual: dependency on nature their lives are completely on the natural world. We have already taken so much from native americans so is it ethical to use native. This question is one only they can answer: their response: yes. The stories were written for all humans, and they need it now more than ever. Their purpose was to help people live in balance and.