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After this week’s readings, I made an instant connection to a field trip we took a couple of year ago with Takaya Tours and Indian Arm Management Services up through the Burrard Inlet (Səl̓ilw̓ət).
We took our 30 indigenous student on a passenger eco-tour boat from Rocky Point Park in Port Moody or Deep Cove in North Vancouver. Our tour included a Tsleil-Waututh guide who provided interactive dialogue and detailed the importance of land and culture throughout the tour. The journey stops at various points to catch wildlife and indigenous pictographs. Howe (1998) discuss the importance of land as being “fundamental to tribal identity” and this field trip uniquely ties curriculum and culture together. Although our Indigenous students come from various places, they all seemed connected to the guide as his message and teachings were universal. This would be a great field trip for any discipline.
If you are thinking of a field trip option, look them up!
Howe, C. (1998). Cyberspace is No Place for Tribalism. Technology and Native American Culture, 13(2), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.2307/1409143