Transcript Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Technology

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
HEALTH RESEARCH
CENTRE
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ETHICAL
SPACE
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What is Ethical Space?
Roger Poole’s Term
The elusive area between entities
A Space we previously thought was empty
Unseen, unspoken, undercurrent
“Unstated Knowledge”
Ethics…is about
humanI boundaries
Boundaries imposed by self
Boundaries imposed by family
Boundaries imposed by cultural imperatives
such as religion, community ethos
Boundaries imposed by collective principles
such as knowledge, law
Broad Historic Overview
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• Two Worlds – circa 1492
• Engaged – Fur trade
• Disengaged – rupture of fur trade
• Engaged – treaty negotiations
• Disengaged – breach of treaty
• Engaged – forced engagement
• Entangled - need to Disengage
• Re-engage – futuristic - in ethical manner
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Ethical Space ...
“IYSI NI KAT TU WIN”
– How we treat each other as human beings
The unseen, mysterious, animating force in each
of us
It is about our spirit, our mind, our heart,
our humanity
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IT IS ABOUT OUR HUMANITY
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Western World
Indigenous World
Undercurrent
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WHAT IS THE
UNDERCURRENT?
The Undercurrent
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• An Established Consciousness
• Western mind (history, thought, values)
(Seeks universality, mono-culture)
• A model of society / presented as the norm
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Advanced by its centers of authority, State
apparatus
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Contains Indigenous Peoples’ Image
“Engagement”
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Human Communities
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Western Society
Indigenous Society
Ethical
Space
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INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
Kiskêyitamôhwin
Kiskey
êyi
tam
ôh
win
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KNOWLEDGE
HAS TO INFORM THE HEART
Indigenous Experience
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•Indigenous Peoples’ reality
•Oral histories
•Values, rights, morals
•Knowledge system / tradition
•Worldview, philosophies
•Ethos
INDIGENOUS THOUGHT
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INTEGRITY
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DIALOGUE
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RECONCILE
Holistic Worldview / Physical Worldview
Indigenous Science / Western Science
Oral tradition / Writing tradition
Collective Organisms / Fragmentation
Natural Contexts / Artificial Contexts
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A Dialogue...
Presentation on climate change from the
western science perspective
Elders provided the experience – the heart and
soul of living on the land
What emerged was the human face of climate
change
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L.H.C.
Large Hadron Collider
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WHAT IS HEALTH?
MIYOMACIHOWIN
MIYO
MACI
MA
CI
HO
WIN
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THE HUMAN…
The Ethos: The Enfolded Being
The Narrative, The History, The reality
The Memory Work
Who are you?
What is your gift – to the world
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SHIFTING SPACES
Administrative Space
Teacher Education
Mind / Consciousness
Apparatus / work force
OSKAPIWIS
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•A servant, (functionary, operative, mover and shaker, butler)
•Specialized training and knowledge – often from birth
•Serves the ethos of the community, the organism
•Anticipates and acts for the ethos, the community organism
•Privileged in ceremonial and community function
•Ordained by the community
Ethical
Space
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•Affirm the space
•Outside the box: Create new thought
•Work as Catalyst to Develop Humanity
•Vulnerability
Indigenous
Gaze I
Remembers
A mirror
Measure of
Society
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ITS ABOUT OUR HUMANITY
EKOSI
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