This course brings knowledge of Canadian Indigenous communities' relationship to the environment as valuable lessons for understanding climate vulnerability, impacts and adaptation. Students will be led by a local First Nations teacher whose valuable insights to implementing efficient uses of our land and spiritual relationships with nature can assist in addressing global sustainability. Cross-listed with ACC-2030.
Wallis, Wilson D. and Ruth Sawtell Wallis. Ch.6: Zoology and Botany. In The Micmac Indians of eastern Canada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955.
Wallis, Wilson D. and Ruth Sawtell Wallis. Ch.7: The Body in Sickness and in Health. In The Micmac Indians of eastern Canada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955.