Community Forum
Prompts
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Do you live near a body of water? If so, which? How would you define your relationship to this water?
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What resonated with you in reading the information and stories? Was there a particular fact or story that stood out?
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Does anything you learned change the way you view your relationship to water? If so, what did you learn, and how did it change your perspective?
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Responses:
Name: Abby
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Subject: Reflections on Water and Education
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Message: My relationship to water is mostly aesthetic. When going camping, I lie to sit by the water, but I rarely swim or do anything else involving the water. However, as a sociology student, I have had some courses that involved discussing waterways and, more specifically, city planning and city layout. Similarly to most high schools, in many of my sociology and history courses, we have rarely discussed indigenous issues, particularly relating to water. When we have spoken about it, much of the focus has been on the funding and “support” provided by the government for Indigenous communities. None of my courses really paid any attention to the negative impacts of the government intervention that is currently in place. Many of the courses have said the government is doing the right thing and/or is positively impacting the communities, but through this website and some other research I have done myself, it is clear that the government is taking the wrong approach. They my have good intentions, but their impact is not as helpful as it could be because they have not taken the proper approaches to supporting the Indigenous communities in our country.