Learning Objectives:
- To familiarize ourselves with several ongoing activist movements to protect Indigenous land
- To connect historical legacies of colonial land dispossession to present-day land theft and environmental destruction
- To experiment using visual and audio tools that we will use in our infographic assignment
- Choose a topic from the following list of Indigenous activist issues that interests you the most. If you are not familiar with any of the topics, do a few quick google searches to help you decide
Sogorea te land trust (Oakland, California)
Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
Wet’suwet’en Territory (Canada)
Arizona Sacred Sites and Border Wall (Arizona)
Dakota Access Pipeline (North Dakota)
- Find and watch or listen to a short video or podcast about the issue
- Create and submit a document or creative art work that includes the following information:
A short summary of the Indigenous land activist issue of your choice: who/what native people were involved? When did the activism begin? What land or natural resources are they trying to protect?
A personal reflection– what do you think should be done about the issue you chose?
an image that depicts a certain aspect of the activism (people, protests, the land or water being protected, etc).
the link to the short film or video that you watched to familiarize yourself with the issue