The Story of 13 Moons: Developing an Environmental Health and Sustainability Curriculum Founded on Indigenous First Foods and Technologies

Donatuto, Jamie; Campbell, Larry; LeCompte, Joyce K.; Rohlman, Diana; Tadlock, Sonni

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The Story of 13 Moons: Developing an Environmental Health and Sustainability Curriculum Founded on Indigenous First Foods and Technologies

2020
By Donatuto, Jamie ; Campbell, Larry ; LeCompte, Joyce K. ; ...

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Sustainability
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Donatuto, Jamie ; Campbell, Larry ; LeCompte, Joyce K. ; Rohlman, Diana ; Tadlock, Sonni
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Sea Grant
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WASHU (Washington Sea Grant)
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The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community developed an informal environmental health and sustainability (EHS) curriculum based on Swinomish beliefs and practices. EHS programs developed and implemented by Indigenous communities are extremely scarce. The mainstream view of EHS does not do justice to how many Indigenous peoples define EHS as reciprocal relationships between people, nonhuman beings, homelands, air, and waters. The curriculum provides an alternative informal educational platform for teaching science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) using identification, harvest, and preparation activities of First Foods and medicines that are important to community members in order to increase awareness and understanding of local EHS issues. The curriculum, called 13 Moons, is founded on a set of guiding principles which may be useful for other Indigenous communities seeking to develop their own curricula.
Keywords:

Geography, Planning And Development Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment Geography, Planning And Development Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment Geography, Planning And Development Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Renewable Energy, Sustainability And The Environment
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Sustainability, 12(21), 8913
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https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218913
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2071-1050
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MDPI AG
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