“Indigenous Geography and Native Science”

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  Comment by Stacey Syne — September 30, 2009 @ 6:42 pm

  This was a very good presentation and I appreciate an alternative view to climate change and indigenous peoples and their beliefs.
  However, one comment I would like to make is that this presentation focused only on indigenous people’s in the Americas, mainly North America.
  I would have liked to see a more global perspective taking into consideration the native peoples on all continents – migratory tribes in Scandinavia and Russia, aboriginal people in Australia and New Zealand, tribes in Africa and those in the Caribbean and Pacific islands.
  It is especially important to highlight the issues among these particular groups because they are not given as much attention all over the world as Native American Indians.

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  Jose Brenes Reply:
  September 30th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

  Stacey

  Fully agree with you

  Just to give you a hint on how I feel, think for a moment that Scandinavia and Russia are known in some other places.

  My country, Costa Rica,on the other hand is some times taken to be PUERTO Rico, or at most is dumped under the label North America, which is NOT part of

  With those data at hand, you may have rightly concluded that expected climate change effects, as a whole, on this part of the world are barely included

  Last but not least: Doug mentioned that indigenous population at USA was a tiny 1.5%. Say USA has a population of some 300 million, hence 1.5% will amount to 4.5 million: the WHOLE population of Costa Rica

  The postive part is that he DID refer to those forgotten, and gave us a view that quite generally is put aside in the offitial discourse. That in itelf is a big plus for him

  Bests

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