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You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

- australian aboriginal elder-

Day 1

Day 1: What does indigenous mean?

There You Go! by Survival International

Earth's Most Threatened Tribe by Survival International

the sum total of all thoughts, dreams, ideas, beliefs, myths, intuitions, and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness; it's a symbol of all that we've accomplished and all that we can accomplish; the ethnosphere is humanity's great legacy and much like the biosphere, it is endangered.  -wade davis-

ethnosphere

Day 2

Day 2: Indigenous Knowledge

Wade Davis: Cultures at the Edge of the World

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.                           -wade davis- 

Day 3

Day 3: Visit with Rhodia Mann

TOK Talk with Rhodia Mann: Thursday, September 22

HS MPR

11:20-12:30

Rhodia Mann with her Samburu "Mother"  Source: East African, photo/david beatty

Rhodia Mann was born and raised in Kenya to Romanian-Polish Jewish refugees fleeing the horrors of Nazi Europe.  Bead collector, jewelry maker, and curator of indigenous culture artifacts, stories, and traditions-especially the Samburu-Rhodia is working to establish a library at a school in Maralal.

Rhodia Mann Necklace: Venetian Red-Blue Chevron Awale Trade beads with antique Moroccan Silver Bead owned by Mz Zents, purchased at Nairobi Craft Fair 2009

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