Indigeneity, Technology, and Education
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
This is a fantastic website that “records and preserves the oral history, cultural arts, language concepts, and traditional ecological knowledge.” Furthermore, it “seeks to correct misconceptions, end prejudice, bring health and wellness to Native people, and demonstrate how Indigenous culture has and is continuing to enrich our worlds.”
This is a blog post about the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) when it comes to examining climate change and the impact it holds. This blog discusses the impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and how integrating different traditional knowledge could help.
https://www.nfb.ca/education/guides/
This is the National Film Board (NFB) has an extensive amount of Aboriginal resources including films that can be used in the classroom. These “study guides are designed to facilitate the integration of NFB films into the classroom” which can be used to create lesson plans that fit the needs of individual students.
https://bctf.ca/IssuesInEducation.aspx?id=13404
The BCTF site has some great Aboriginal Education teaching resources. These resources are for a variety of grades and subjects. One of resources titled ‘Math First Peoples: Teaching Mathematics in a First Peoples Context,’ “incorporates new approaches that make the BC school system more reflective of the realities of First Peoples and improve overall levels of student success.” This resource includes the First Peoples Principles of Learning which are embedded into BC’s new curriculum. Furthermore, this resource would empower Aboriginal students in particular and make them feel more comfortable in mathematics learning knowing that Aboriginal elders had a hand in creating this resource.
This website is called ‘Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. which offers courses and training in order to build Indigenous relations; these courses are open to companies, retailers, consulting firms, all levels of government, and other organizations. Courses include Indigenous awareness, working effectively with Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous consultation, and many other courses. I thought this would be a good resource to pass on in case someone may have a need for it.
In this podcast, four Indigenous representatives discuss the importance of including Indigenous Peoples in World Trade Organization (WTO) discussions and conversations. The Indigenous representatives rightfully state that “consent needs to be obtained before access can be made granted to traditional knowledge or associated genetic resources [that will benefit all parties involved].”
This is a short YouTube video that tells the story of the Yakuanoi people- a fictional Indigenous community. The story that is told in the video emphasizes the importance of protecting traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights. This knowledge includes “skills, practices, and innovations [that] are carefully passed down generation to generation.” This knowledge which needs to be protected is linked to Indigenous identity. This short video does a great job explaining the importance of intellectual property rights and how it is linked to economic likelihood.
‘Indigenous Storywork,’ by Jo-Ann Archibald is a fantastic read for everybody. I read this book as part of a book club and it is amazing. I have had the privilege of having Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald for one of my courses and she is absolutely inspirational. This book discusses “how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit” [and] builds upon the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy (Archibald, 2008).
http://www.afn.ca/2011/06/15/atk-intellectual-property-rights/
This is the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) website and it is a great resource for learning more about intellectual property rights and how First Nations Peoples are affected by this. This website contains important information and also has a discussion paper on Aboriginal Traditional knowledge (ATK) and Intellectual Property Rights and a First Nations Ethics guide on research and aboriginal traditional knowledge.
http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/stories/tk_seminar2015.html
This is the World Intellectual Property Organization website and it has various resources when it comes to gaining more information about intellectual property and more specifically, Indigenous intellectual property rights. William Fisher of Harvard University Law School stated that “the topic [Indigenous intellectual property rights] is very difficult, perhaps the most difficult issue in the law of intellectual property [which involves uses of “traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, or genetic resources].”