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This week water, wind, ceremony, and other energies are explored

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This week water, wind, ceremony, and other energies are explored.  Readings in text focused mostly around water and ethical practices. 

As a prompt you may want to explore the differences between modern systems and the engineering of the indigenous past.  You can compare stories of Ed Edmo and discussions from Asserting Native Resilience.  You may also want to discuss the Elwha Tribes damn removal, biodiversity and the movie "Waterbusters".  How does the removal of the dam illustrate change in Natural Resource management for the Elwha people?

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I remember learning about Celilo Falls in a class I had at my local community college. Thinking about the sheer number and size of salmon that was caught there is hard to believe in this day and age where salmon are struggling. One part of the Celilo Falls video that really stuck with me is the way that settlers and white people discussed the gaming of the river as some giant feat for mankind. They referred to it as a "Conquest of the Columbia." There was a sense of progress and science and brining electricity to all the towns in the area. I'm sure that for the tribes who had such a dependency and connection to the river and falls the creation of the damn was none of these things. It strikes me as a similar thread to all the previous weeks, white people come in a boast of progress or making things better but it's only out of a selfish desire. Natives are handed the short end of the stick but only recently have we started to look back at the hardships they faced. Even today similar situations are occurring with tribes all over the country. It seems like because we often see Native's traditions or ways of doing things as "outdated" or "antique" we think that they need help and intervention to modernize them. Time and time again this has proven to cause more problems and pull Natives even further from their heritage.

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