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Indigenous-led Permaculture Brings Resilience to Pine Ridge

Provided by: Rob Greenfield |Published on: April 27, 2021

Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

This video is about the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and their cultural and economic revitalization through community projects.
Students will learn about Indigenous wisdom, permaculture, sustainable food production, housing, and the treatment of Indigenous people.

Subjects: Science, Civics

Authors: Rob Greenfield

Region: North America, USA - Midwest, United States, South Dakota

Languages: English

Positives

This video acknowledges the harms done to Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, while also providing a positive message of solution-based thinking on many issues including food security, health, agriculture, housing, and sovereignty.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should know the terms permaculture, Indigenous wisdom, and food sovereignty.

Differentiation

History teachers can use this video in class when discussing colonization and the erasure of Indigenous peoples from North America. This video can help students understand that Indigenous Peoples are still here and struggling for sovereignty.
There is a link in the description to the OLCERI website where students can learn more and find ways to get involved.
Other resources related to these topics include A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change, Youth Climate Story: First Foods and the Fight to Protect Indigenous Lands, and How to Be a Good Ancestor.
This video could be used to introduce a lesson on the Tragedy of the Commons.

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