Synthesis and Response to Indigenous Resistance

This essay begins by giving a brief introduction of the Coast Salish People of British Columbia and Washington State. These people are a group of Aboriginal individuals who pride themselves on not assimilating with the American culture and maintaining a place-based consciousness. However, first the USA, and then a decade later Canada, began assimilating this group’s children by forcing them to leave the land and attend public schools. The essay continues to talk about the decolonization of this group as a whole in the nineteenth century. The group was forced to be confined to borders of the empire, and were told to shake off their darkness of their pre-modern life-ways. Children in public schools were even punished for speaking their native languages. Boarding schools were created for the children, and somewhat became a safe haven for them even though the objective was to break them from their culture. The essay continues on to speak about the steps America and Canada took to cruelly assimilate this group.

This essay was very upsetting to me. I believe that no one should be forced to leave their culture because a government told them to. As long as they are not a threat, I see nothing wrong with letting the tribe maintain their ways of life. 

Food Sustainability

      For my new place, I wanted to choose somewhere that is making steps in the right direction to consume food that is sustained through animals who are not caged their entire life. Therefore, I did some research, and found a place I had been to that is making their food completely sustainable from their backyard. My place is the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The Biltmore was originally created to be completely food sustainable. George Vanderbilt, the original owner and builder of the Biltmore Estate, built the mansion in vision that it would be a totally sustainable and self-efficient estate. However, over time the Biltmore had become very far from that.

     William A. V. Cecil, George Vanderbilt's Grandson, is now in control and wanted to get the Biltmore Estate back to the way his Grandfather envisioned it. Through a lot of work, he has successfully gotten the Biltmore back to making his Grandfather proud. It is very interesting to read all of the ways the Biltmore functions with sustainable food. This is going to be very neat to talk about for my next essay.

source
http://www.bunkycooks.com/2012/09/sustainability-at-biltmore-estate-a-recipe-for-lamb-shank-sopes/

Artifact

My text that is symbolic of an artifact of environmental ethics is literally telling the history of climate change and when we first started finding elements that damaged our environment. I thought this would be a good "artifact" because it shows when our environment first starts changing, and what was found first. The article explains that In 1753 we found carbon dioxide, in 1827 we found that the earth was getting warmer and presented the idea of a green house, and in 1896 we found out that burning emissions could lead to global warming. I think it is crazy how long ago these facts were found out, yet not until the last ten years the Earth hasn't really focused on preserving the Earth very much. We just recently started "going green." Whether that means inventing new technology that does not harm the environment, or finding other ways to preserve our resources, this did not start until a little over a decade ago!

The link to this website is: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Thewiderenvironment/Climatechange/DG_072901