Intermediate FNMI ABQ: Introduction Module 1- Task 5 "Indigenous Worldviews"

 As per course,

"What are Indigenous Worldviews?

For this task you will seek more information about worldviews and specifically, Indigenous worldviews.

To get started, review an online blog titled, Indigenous Peoples Worldviews vs Western Worldviews - 

http://www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-peoples-worldviews-vs-western-worldviews

Post to the Task Board one of the following:

a brief summary written by yourself on your understanding of Indigenous worldviews OR
find an online video, which you believe represents Indigenous worldviews as you understand it and which you could share with an Intermediate classroom

Review your classmates' submissions."

As per discussion,

"My understanding of the FNMI worldviews are "understandings/interpretations" based on my own experiences of the language used to dictate these worldviews. I feel it is important that its made clear we are aren't providing opinion on the matter, but interpretation. I say this because if I misinterpret or misunderstood-I don't want to make anyone feel I am stating my own opinion on a topic.

This interpretation comes a lot from something of what resonates with me from a reading of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The world is a living organ to what we can establish as the universe. We are all connected and actually thinking back to a scene from Baichwal and Burtynski's film, Watermark (2014) in which Oscar Dennis (MA) was interviewed on the First Nation's view on the importance of water. In the documentary,  he describes that all living beings are apart of the cycle of nature in which nature specifically to the water cycle is being focused on. The cycle of water from sky to land includes all those that drink it, connecting all living creatures up to about 70% (as that is what percentage of water out bodies are made of). 

These two texts help me feel that the way I understand these principles/views are on the basis of communal living. This would not only be a word (communal) to describe the way that the people view others as they interact within society but also people as they interact with the physical world around them-then again these principles/views make me feel like I should understand that there is no difference but apart of the the same cyclical nature (as we feed into the universe).

On another note I wanted to share another experience in which the First Nations Principles of learning (as shown here), https://teacherstatus14.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-global-perspective-first-nations.html  are compared to the principles of learning that are utilized on a cultural level in China. This was something done at a BC Offshore school while trying to find a way for Canadian education to find a place within the educational institutions of China."

Sources:

N/A. Indigenous Peoples' Worldviews Vs. Western Worldviews. Jan. 26, 2016. Indigenous Wordview Inc. from, 

https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-peoples-worldviews-vs-western-worldviews

E. Burtynski, J. Baichwal. Watermark. Sixth Wave Productions.