Wilma Mankiller

              The source I chose to talk about is the speech given buy Wilma Mankiller to ASU entitled: Challenges Facing 21st century Indigenous people. This is the viewpoint of a nation leader talking about how we a people can live together. She talks about how the relationship that natives have with the earth is not just for native peoples, but for the good of all people and more importantly, the animals we share the earth with. She tells of a story where out of a crowd of people, not one person who was passing over the river looked at the sunset. Mankiller was trying to convey how people take a lot of natural beauty in the world for granted, and a lot of the time do not notice it around them.
This web source is important because Wilma Mankiller in her speech, talks about pretty much everything we talked about in this course. She goes through the entire history of indigenous hardship and does a good job connecting that history with the present. She says that 200-500 years from now, she still believes there will be indigenous nations, and she backs this up by talking about the values and culture that nations have held onto and gives listeners a sense of hope for the future.”Nations have had to reinvent themselves, but they never lost their relationship with others and the land”. The system of indigenous knowledge, as Mankiller states, needs to be preserved not just for indigenous people, but for all people, so that they can learn from them.

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  1. UnknownFebruary 23, 2018 at 8:24 PM

    Thank you for your research. I also agree with your points. The important thing to remember is we as humans need to protect the land. The land is the most important thing we can pass on to other generations. If they do not have good land that supports the animals and plants the possibility of surviving is slim.

    Another point you made that Chief Mankiller made is, and it is sad to say, there will always be indigenous people among us. So maybe a goal for the future is to protect the land and to eliminate the plight of indigenous people.

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