{"id":1523,"date":"2012-09-20T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:01:37","slug":"google-earth-preserving-indigenous-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/09\/20\/google-earth-preserving-indigenous-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth Preserving Indigenous Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never realized the potential of Google Earth to preserve cultures. \u00a0Chief Almir Surui of the Brazilian Indigenous Surui recognized that Google Earth would enable his people to create and preserve a cultural map of their ancestral lands.\u00a0 The article on <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/06\/25\/google-earth-surui-cultural-map\/\">Mashable <\/a>provides an overview of the Surui project in text and video format.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Almir Surui was concerned with two issues: loss of culture and unsustainable illegal logging of the Amazon. \u201cThese days you can\u2019t separate talking about culture from talking about technology, there\u2019s no separation between these things,\u201d Chief Almir Surui told <em>Mashable<\/em>.\u00a0 Chief Almir embraced technology and partnered with Google: training Elders and a group of young students on how to use laptops and cellphones to take pictures, videos, map locations and record stories.\u00a0 The result is a technological record of Surui historical sites, land, animals and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by this story because I believe Chief Almir Surui recognized that his tribe was fighting a losing battle, and therefore needed to combine traditional methods with western technological approaches.\u00a0 Combined, the elders and students have brought awareness to Amazon deforestation and the challenges affecting Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>Camille<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never realized the potential of Google Earth to preserve cultures. \u00a0Chief Almir Surui of the Brazilian Indigenous Surui recognized that Google Earth would enable his people to create and preserve a cultural map of their ancestral lands.\u00a0 The article on Mashable provides an overview of the Surui project in text and video format. Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[562,1482,558],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-culture","tag-elders","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}