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Aboriginal Environmental Wisdom, Stewardship, and Sustainability: Lessons From the Walpole Island First Nations, Ontario, Canada
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Generally speaking, environmental education teaching, research, and practice have been informed by the traditions of western, Euro-centric culture. In this context indigenous perspectives are often marginalized, maligned, and perceived to be unscientific and therefore inferior. This essay adds to the growing body of literature exploring aboriginal indigenous environmental epistemologies and responsible human interactions with the natural environment. The paper provides a Canadian context as it examines the environmental philosophy and attitude of a Canadian First Nations community to the natural environment grounded in the lived experiences of adults, children and elders from the Walpole Island First Nation. We make the argument that while not a panacea, Aboriginal environmental epistemologies hold lessons for teaching environmental stewardship and sustainability behavior in mainstream classrooms.
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Efforts on this front typically concentrate on attaining mainstream status for Indigenous perspectives, on equal terms with the existing prevalent worldview.
“Efforts on this front typically concentrate on attaining mainstream status for Indigenous perspectives, on equal terms with the existing prevalent worldview (Beckford et al. 2010).”
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Recent work promoting Indigenous environmental knowledge exposes the exclusionary nature of western European knowledge systems, which treat Indigenous understandings as inferior, if they are at all considered.
“Like much of postcolonial thought, recent work promoting Indigenous environmental knowledge exposes the exclusionary nature of western European knowledge systems, which treat Indigenous understandings as inferior, if they are at all considered.”
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- Beckford, C. L., Jacobs, C., Williams, N., & Nahdee, R.
- Venue
- The Journal of Environmental Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-06-23
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 239-248
- ISSN
- 0095-8964
- 1940-1892
- Cited by
- 91
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- 0
- Language
- en
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