Speaking In Circles: Indigenous Identity and White Privilege
Theses
Author/Creator
Adrian Downey
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--Mount Saint Vincent University, 2017.
Author has learned that Indigenous peoples can engage in dialogue in the universities and create their own intellectual, theoretical, and epistemological spaces rather than embracing only cynicism and suspicion of academia.
Discusses the long history of Indigenous agriculture, how plants from the New World spread to the Old. and the need to return to traditional practices and regain food sovereignty. Educators share their experiences and lesson plans which use the story of the Three Sisters to teach a variety of subjects. Created to accompany the video.