Understanding Indigenism: Building A Different Future for Us All

Indian activist at Grand Portage Chippewa Tribe, Norman Des Campe, says: "You must live." Today, the lifelong process of understanding the cultures of indigenous peoples is restricted by "cultural survival". Future generations define themselves as Inuit or Kayapo's ability to be threatened as their natural environment and social integrity are hurt by government negligence: Aboriginal culture is protected by political structure It must be. Transformation power of the nation state,

Not only indigenous peoples understand the interrelationship of all living things. Thousands of people from various ethnic groups are fighting the environment every day to protect the planet and protect the earth. The difference is that indigenous peoples can regularly recall their responsibility to their land through stories and rituals. They are still close to the land, not only their way of living but also their mind and how they see the world. Protecting the environment is not an intellectual activity but a sacred duty. When women like Big Mountain's elders Pauline Whitesinger and West Shoshone's land rights activist Carrie Dann talk about securing land for future generations they are not only talking about future human beings. They are talking about plants, animals, water and all future creatures.

Cultures from all over the world have formed various views of nature through the history of mankind. Many of them are rooted in the traditional belief system that indigenous people use to understand and explain their biophysical environment (Iaccarino, 2003). These managed environmental systems are part of the cultural identity and social integrity of many indigenous peoples. At the same time, their knowledge reflects the vast amount of wisdom and natural experience gained from thousands of direct observations, usually oral.

Western science and traditional knowledge: Although they are different, different forms of knowledge can learn from each other

Throughout history, different countries have designated groups within their borders to be recognized as indigenous peoples in different ways, according to international or national law. Indigenous peoples also include indigenous people who live in the country's population or live in non-indigenous religions and cultures that have established existing borders and their social, economic, We hold some or all of cultural and political institutions. But they may have been expelled from their traditional areas or settled in their ancestral outdoors.