Current Issue: A3_Inherent Rights of Indigenous Flashcards
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What are Indigenous Worldviews?
Holistic perspectives held by Indigenous peoples that emphasize interconnectedness, relationality, and a deep spiritual connection to the land and all living beings.
What are Western Worldviews?
Perspectives, often dominant in Western societies, that tend to emphasize objectivity, individual achievement, and a view of humans as separate from or having dominion over nature.
What is Land Stewardship?
The responsible management and care of land and its resources, often with a long-term perspective on ecological health and sustainability.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)?
The cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with their environment.
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)?
A comprehensive international instrument that sets out the minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the Indigenous peoples of the world.
What is Self-determination in the context of Indigenous peoples?
The right of Indigenous peoples to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.
What is Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)?
The principle that Indigenous peoples have the right to be consulted and to give or withhold their consent for any proposed projects or actions that may affect their lands, territories, or resources.
What is Relationality?
A core concept in Indigenous worldviews that emphasizes the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things – humans, animals, plants, the land, and the spiritual world.
What is Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk)?
A concept that encourages learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledge and ways of knowing, and to use both eyes together for the benefit of all.
What is Land-based Learning?
Educational approaches that connect learning to the natural environment and local place, often incorporating Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
The process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide, often in natural reservoirs like forests.
What are Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)?
Areas where Indigenous governments and peoples have the primary role in protecting and conserving ecosystems, species, and cultural heritage.
Who are Land Guardians?
Individuals or groups, often from Indigenous communities, who monitor, manage, and protect ancestral territories and their natural resources.
What are Ontologies?
Philosophical understandings of the nature of being, existence, or reality.
What are Epistemologies?
Philosophical understandings of the nature of knowledge, how it is acquired, and what constitutes valid knowledge.
