Forum 7.2 - Deecolonizing Mindsets

3/22/2022

Guiding Inquiry: Why is it important to take into account multiple perspectives when approaching a place-based issue?

Guiding Thought Question: Read the Article "Decolonizing Conservation: Native Communities Know How to Protect Nature" and write a summary below.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the importance of incorporating in local and indigenous knowledge when conducting projects on conservation and ecology by examining endangered cultures and having a class discussion.

16 Comments

izzy martin

3/23/2022 01:58:20 pm

Indigenous people are often ignored or glossed over in the fields of conservation and ecology. The quote “ We're often seen as areas of expertise rather than experts ourselves,” she said. “We're seen as research subjects rather than researchers.” is particularly interesting. Many researchers are interested in the Indigenous experience, but just to the point of how they can use it, not actually interacting with Indigenous people themselves. Overall Indigenous people are historically the best people in preserving natural spaces, but many of their accomplishments are disregarded until a white person says it. Lame!

Riley Martin

3/23/2022 02:02:13 pm

Maria de Jesus is a scientist who works to incorporate Indigenous peoples ideas to help with environmental issue. But people laughed at that idea because Indigenous people have been put to the side when it comes to parks. They often had statues or places named after people who had committed mass genocide on the people who originally lived there. The people who have lived on this land for thousands of years know how to take care of it. We can use the information that they know to help our struggling environment.

Cariena :)

3/23/2022 02:02:28 pm

Basically this environmental scientist, Jessica Hernandez, had learned a lot about conservation growing up from her grandmother who was a member of the Zapotec community in Mexico. Through trying to write a paper in grad school about things she already knew worked and being humiliated about it, she realized that a lot of conservation work is being gatekept from indigenous communities who probably know the land better than anyone. Instead of glorifying people who called for the "extinction of indigenous people" and advocating for mass genocide, we should be honoring and learning from people who took care of the lands for centuries.

little forget link

3/23/2022 02:05:15 pm

This article basically about someone's personal experience with how most people ignore indigenous people and their experiences and opinions about certain ideas and concepts.

Daniel Montes

3/23/2022 02:06:31 pm

This article is about Jessica Hernandez, and how she approaches ecology with a heritage, native focused standpoint. She talks about how many times native peoples were silenced because of the perceived "low education" or non western way of the data even though they are proven to take care of the land much better as they have been for hundreds of years. She is trying to spread this knowledge to a bigger amount of people although she is getting criticism.

emma

3/23/2022 02:18:59 pm

hernandez is the daughter of indigenous immigrants from mexico and el salvador. she brings devine into her work from the indigenous knowledge and western data. she wants to see enviornmental organizations, governments and the descendants of settlers reckon with there ainti-indigenous histories and elevate indigenous voices. one thing she does is she uses her credientals and her large social media following to bring indigenous science and voices into academia. she says she looks at her family and they know more about the enviornment more than all the professor she has ever had in her career. so this is saying that indigenous people are often ignored and thought of as almost stupid but hernandez has proven a lot of people wrong.

Sienna

3/24/2022 07:42:51 am

The main point of this article is that Indigenous peoples knowledge and advice is not taken seriously in academia since that information doesn't come from "higher education," and racism. This article follows a woman named Jessica Hernandez and her experience of being Indigenous and in science. She talks about how know one will take her and her peoples knowledge on the natural world seriously. She is now working to change that by continueing to write articles and books combining western science and Indigenous science together to come up with solutions. She also teaches classes to other people, Indigenous or not.

sims

3/24/2022 07:43:22 am

it’s important to look at different perspectives because americans have been taking the lands of indigenous people forever and if we looks at more perspectives then we could be more considerate to them. indigenous people have always been kind of shrugged off like what they have to say isn’t important however if you’re taking things like land from someone you should probably like listen to what they have to say and you should probably say sorry

Axel

3/24/2022 07:44:00 am

Many people have been living on the land for a lot longer than us. They just aren't as loud, or more likely, didn't have more guns than settlers did back when they showed up. These people were protecting and cherishing the land far longer than any one of the encroaching invaders. They possess knowledge of how to keep things healthy that the town building, tree choppin', crop growin', cattle raising settlers hadn't even thought about thinking about

Thea

3/24/2022 07:45:52 am

Jessica learned her indiginous culture from her grandma. She became an outspoken critic on western conservation, which often exclude indigenous perspectives. For a long time, conservation had pushed indigenous peoples experiences aside for data. One of her goals is to see monuments built for the indigenous people who fought to keep the land. She is using her credentials and large social media following to bring an indigenous perspective to academics.

Lauryn

3/24/2022 07:52:54 am

The article is about Jessica Hernadez and how people didn't listen to her and questioned her "credentials" because of her race. Hernandez fought to combine western knowledge and indigenous knowledge to help the environment.

Albino

3/24/2022 07:53:00 am

Jessica Hernandez is the daughter of indigenous immigrants from Mexico. When she was young she would go to her grandmothers house in Mexico, where he grandmother would tell her about the plants and animals while on hikes. As she got older Hernandez went to get an ecology degree where when she would write things about what she learned from her fisherman father and her grandmother, the professors would not take it seriously. Indigenous people for ages have protected the land before settlers took over. Hernandez wants indigenous people who have looked after the land and protected it to be recognized, weather it is by monuments or some other way.

bob

3/24/2022 09:00:49 am

This article is about Jessica Hernandez, and how she approaches ecology with a heritage, native focused stand. She talks about how many times native peoples were silenced because of the "low education" or non western way of the data even though they are proven to take care of the land much better as they have been for hundreds of years. People didn't believe her because of her heritage and race. She is trying to spread this knowledge to a bigger amount of people but she keeps getting criticism.

Helena

3/24/2022 09:07:54 am

Although many indigenous people are being ignored in conservation efforts even though they have protected the environment using their collective knowledge, Jessica Hernandez has been trying to weave the western information with the indigenous information to find new solutions for the environment. In addition to this, she is also hoping that by doing this, will give the people a voice that will allow them to do more.

Matthew

3/24/2022 09:08:04 am

Pretty much about Jessica Hernandez become a outspoken person for indigenous people and how because of her background, doesn’t get taken seriously. So she is working on changing the prejudices on indigenous people.

d-swiz

3/24/2022 09:11:35 am

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