Weekly Online Assignment and reflection, final paper (DUE MAY 6, 2021 and will not be available after midnight on that date for submission)Boozhoo indinawemaaganag/ greetings my relatives,For you final paper, there are only ten paragraphsand they are written as a summary of what you have learned through our lessons this semester. You get a point for the title of each paragraph, a point for your response to the guiding question for each paragraph, and a point for your example from the Native voices you heard, read, or learned about that support the formation of your idea in each paragraph. Remember that each of the 10 responses are to be presented in the form of a paragraph, so each of the 10 responses should have a minimum of 3 sentences, but at least 5 sentences would be a much more cohesive representation of your thoughts. Therefore, with each paragraph being out of three points and there being 10 paragraphs, the paper is out of 30 points total. Here are the headings you use for each paragraph along with guiding questions to help you write about each topic:Introduction (what did you hope to learn in this class and how did that match with your experience? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Identity (what have you learned about Indigenous identity? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Cultural Diversity (what have you learned about Indigenous cultural diversity? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Worldview (what have you learned about how Indigenous people perceive their experiences in the world and make sense of them? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Ecology in relation to the Economy(what have you learned about how Indigenous people understand their relatedness to the environment within the reality of the modern economy? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Expression (what have you learned about Indigenous expression (art, performance, writing, voice, etc)? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Insistence, Persistence, and Survivance (what have you learned about Indigenous insistence, persistence, and survivance (definition of survivance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivance )? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous Improvisation and Adaptation to a Changing World (what have you learned about Indigenous improvisation and adaptation to a changing world, especially since the time of contact with Europeans? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Indigenous People as Vital Participants in the Modern World (what are your thoughts on how and why Indigenous people are vital participants in the modern world? How does the diversity and unique Medicine that Indigenous people carry serve to enhance our collective capacity for survival? Provide an example from the class to illustrate your point.)
Conclusion. In the conclusion, I want you to consider and reflect upon some aspect(s) of this model, I have created at part of my research, in relation to your experience in this class: TIPM.pdf
I hope you see how this mirrors the Horse Medicine (the kind of healing horses provide to riders for accessing their Inner Fires) that was mentioned in the Dakota 38. It is my hope that my methods have, in some way, stoked your Inner Fires because, as I have reminded many of you throughout the semester, that Inner Fires creates the beauty we all depend upon for our collective survival. Additionally, in your concluding paragraph, I also want you to watch and comment on this video by my Anishinaabe relatives about being Fire Makers of the Seventh Generation—those currently responsibility for honoring those who came before, those in this world now, and those who will come next—all your relations: https://youtu.be/CANWLwrvt5g.I hope this makes sense and you see that this form of assessment is of the fourth region—the region of ‘conscientizing’—in my model above. I hope that you have found this exercise to be about harvesting, gathering, and sharing as a form of celebration for a good harvest, in this case, of knowledge to move us all forward together in a better direction. Rather than an assessment of you, I hope that you have come to see that my way is done with you for the purpose of enhancing your learning. Your final paper is due byMay 6, 2021. Chi miigwech niijiiwag/ thank you friends! I am saddened that we could not share a real, physical classroom, but am thankful for those who came out to spend time with me enriching our experience each Tuesday throughout the semester. If you did not and wish to, please join my AINS 4004 Indigenous Knowledge class in the fall or spring next year.Baamaapii kina awiiya/ see you later on everyone. Never forget that I love you; we are relatives because some of the knowledge that grows in me now grows in you and that is because I realize that my future is in your careful and thoughtful hands.Dr. Hey
