“Every single aspect of Aleut culture is, directly or indirectly, tied to harves

“Every single aspect of Aleut culture is, directly or indirectly, tied to harvesting seals, birds and fish. If these skills are not passed down to younger generations the culture will vanish” Western culture and the declining populations of animals are rapidly eroding what is left of the traditional Unangan culture and lifestyle. (Pg. 66, The End of Ice) Q1. Imagine that you are a member of the Aleut. Is there anything you would want westerners, and the world at large, to know about you and your community and what is happening to your way of life? Q2. As a social worker or counselor how might you show up/respond? After reading the article The Myth of Cross-Cultural Competence and from an ‘informed not knower’ position does your response change at all? Q3. Do you or have you experienced environmental privilege and/or environmental oppression( because of skin color, economic class, gender or another form of social identity) discussed in the this weeks readings ? Please explain? Q.4 Answer one of the following questions from Braiding Sweetgrass: a. In the chapter Asters and Goldenrod (pp. 39-47) the author is curious about the relationship between these flowers. “It was an architecture of relationships, of connections that I yearned to understand.” (p. 46) She discovered a “lived reciprocity” between asters and goldenrod—“the pairing of purple and gold”. What is the interdependency between humans and plants? And, what happens if we don’t live up to our end of the relationship? b. In the chapter Learning the Grammar of Animacy (pp. 48-59) introduces the concept of communing with nature by getting to know more about plants and recognizing that they are not inanimate objects. What might you do, or are doing, to learn about the plants in your immediate environment? If you addressed the plants as something other than ‘it’, would that change your attitude towards them?