"Non-Indigenous Culture" - Implications of a Historical Anomaly ...

• Main Author: Rasmussen, Derek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Yes Magazine 2013
• Subjects: Anti-imperialist movements; Snyder, Gary, 1930-; Inuit; Indigenous peoples > Civil rights; Great transformation Polanyi, Karl; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples > European colonies; Illich, Ivan, 1926-2002; inuit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/n53z6-bxa43; https://works.hcommons.org/doi/10.17613/n53z6-bxa43

There has never been a non-Indigenous civilization before in history. What are the effects of peoples who move location on average every 5 or 6 years, with little or no knowledge of the local plants, animals, waterways and lands, and no loyalty to them? When I've asked classrooms of university students: 'Where do you want to be buried?'--non-Indigenous students sit silent; usually only the Indigenous students have an answer: 'My traditional homeland'. ... : There has never been a non-Indigenous civilization before in history. What are the effects of peoples who move location on average every 5 or 6 years, with little or no knowledge of the local plants, animals, waterways and lands, and no loyalty to them? When I've asked classrooms of university students: 'Where do you want to be buried?'--non-Indigenous students sit silent; usually only the Indigenous students have an answer: 'My traditional homeland'. ...