“Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival” Response

“Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival” by Michael Marker was an scientific journal that reviewed and analyzed the division of the Coast Salish people in the British Columbia and Washington state districts. The sudden division of land brought about a confinement of religion, education, families, and culture. The Salish people were subjected to attempts of civilizing by the pioneers to inject their personal beliefs and culture into the minds of the Salish, slowly diminishing their culture’s own history. These attempts were most influential through the school system, restricting the natives from learning history of their people, limiting certain rights, and racism.

After reviewing this article it is clear to see that this issue is reoccurring through history. Education and laws are the ultimate weapons used throughout time to influence society in defining what is right and wrong. Culture is an element that defines a person’s individuality and directing their way of life. If this is strip of someone and has no effort of voicing their culture they will be confined and forced of change based off the dominate society.

Food and sustainability issues

One problem that is present in the place I selected is intensive farming. Intensive farming is a method used by farmers to produce the maximum amount of crops and livestock possible for land to hold. The Piedmont region of North Carolina is popular for its agriculture which causes constant usage of land. To make land available deforestation takes place to supply farmers and businesses with this resource which causes a high percentage of wildlife to lose habitats permanently.  Not only is this an issue, but the constant usage of land soil is stripped of its nutrients, there is an increase in the probability of erosion, and there is a high chance of fertilizer and pesticide contaminating water supply and food.

Enviornmental Ethics

 

 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/environmental-ethics.html

 

This picture is a representation of environmental Ethics. In this picture one can see the emission of smoke and smog into the atmosphere. These clouds of smoke are molded into the shape of each continent. The underlying theme of this image is the unconcern of inserting dangerous pollutants into the Earth's environment by way of factory industries. To allow the audience to understand the location of these events the owner of this graphic includes a depiction of each continent to stress that this epidemic is not just a local event, but global.

Along with this graphic presented by the author is a series of questions that causes the audience to personally examine self and how society handles the environment and productions. The questions areas of concerns were the reducing rates of wildlife causing increasing numbers of extinctions, the health of the environment for future generations, and the effects of human production upon Earth. These inquiries and picture ultimately strive to persuade humans to reduce rates of actions that are harmful and altering to the environment and challenges them to find alternates.