Read my post about A Word Wall.
Why 49 words? It’s 7 * 7 (I am thinking of the 7 directions: N – S – E – W – Earth – Sky – Inner Spirit from the Mi’kmaq creation story). Moreover, a new word must be seen and heard from 7-49 times before it is really understood. Use the Comment feature (at the bottom of this page) to suggest additions or deletions from this list. Or comment on the idea of the list: would a different type of list – or an additional list – be more powerful?
1. gathering community
2. technology respect
3. culture
4. worldview
5. interdependency
6. coexistence
7. consensus
8. conservation resilience
9. environment
10. de-humanization
11. generation 7th generation
12. power
13. economic system fee lands
14. resource
15. pre-Contact
16. self-sufficiency
17. sovereignty
18. diplomacy
19. treaty
20. cultural continuity
21. sustainability
22. alliance
23. life source
24. ancestral homeland
25. territory trust lands
26. stereotypes
27. canoe routes
28. allotment
29. reservation
30. sustenance rights
31. freedom of information
32. racism
33. barter trade
34. petroglyph
35. epidemic – pandemic
36. fur trade
37. land grant
38. depopulation
39. spirituality
40. balance
41. harmony
42. assimilation
43. migration genocide
44. kinship lifeways
45. confederacy civilization
46. land claim
47. band
48. tribal council
49 acculturation – myth – story ???
3 responses so far ↓
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Ta'pit Slagger
// May 19, 2008 at 8:40 am
Recently their has been quite alot of discussion and research on the 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act not only in the tribal communities but research here at the Orono Campus, UMPI, and USM. I think it would be good to post where those research articles can be found. I personaly this semester interviewed Tribal members from the Maliseet Passamaquoddy,and Penobscot tribes that were involved in the signing of the Settlement Act. This is very historical material ,and a great educational resource. Anyone that would like to hear these interviews could contact me or wait till I put them on the LD 291 webstite. Their is already something I did a few yaers ago about education and outreach with the Micmac , and Malissets. It is under Indian Resources on the L.D. 291 website. Wellalian, Ta’pit * WOLASTOGIYIK* PAK-(W)E-NUK-(W)-SEEHN First Nation Canada
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Raney
// May 29, 2008 at 9:05 am
I’d like to suggest “civilization” for the word wall. This word is thrown around a lot, sometimes as a value statement used to judge, other times in historical documents, but almost always as a means of comparing. When I teach I have an activity with the students to create a common understanding of this term for use in our class.
I ask students to tell me what components are necessary for a people to be considered “civilized”- the students usually say things like: government, food production, transportation, language, religion, etc. I write everything they say on the board for all to see. Once the list is “complete” I then go through and talk about how Native communities addressed each of the items listed.
The conversation that results is almost always a great one, and I have found this to be a very useful exercise.
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Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain
// May 29, 2008 at 10:10 am
This is a wonderful exercise – do you link “civilization” to worldview? It seems to me that worldview might be the spirit behind civilization – the internal as opposed to the external – or how civilization ACTS and why it acts that way. Certainly some very unpleasant civilizations acted unpleasantly (from my worldview) because of their worldviews.
Anyway – I have replaced one of the duplicate “worldview” words with “civilization” – a great addition!
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