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Indigenous Perspective Worksheet
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"Seeds for Seven Generations" by Diane Wilson
1. Describe the Dakota norms regarding food harvest across the seasons. (3-4 sentences).
2. Indigenous tribes of the Americas developed ________ percent of the world's crops. Name some of these crops.
3. The Dakota saying "Mitakuye Oyasin" means...
4. The buffalo provided many items for Dakota people. List four.
5. Between 1830 and 1900, the Minnesota landscape shifted from a diverse prairie ecosystem to a form of agriculture emphasizing Monoculture or Polyculture (underline the best answer).
6. As tribes relocated to reserves, the federal government replaced their traditional foods with a commodity food program. What foods were typical of the commodity food program?
7. In 1878 the first federal ____________________ was opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
8. Wilson writes that Monsanto's dominant control of seeds is a form of genetic ___________________________. What does this mean?
9. What is the significance of treating land, plants, and animals as commodities?
10. Cora Baker, Potawatomi elder and seed keeper, gave her lifetime collection of seeds to Dream of Wild Health with her dying wish that Native people might once again begin to garden. Why are seeds so important to Native peoples?
11. How does this valuation of seeds compare to your personal knowledge of and valuation of seeds?
"The Milpa Mixteca, Native Seeds and the Food Crisis" by Santiago Cruz
12. The industrial agriculture system produces food with lots of ________________ products.
13. The food on our plates has travelled an average of __________ miles.
14. Industrial food systems expend _____ calorie/s for every ________ calorie/s of food on US tables.
15. Industrial food production methods borrow soil ____________ from future generations, leaving behind exhausted soil.
16. The milpa system originated in ___________.
17. The three fundamental crops of the milpa among the Mixtec are:
18. How productive are the milpa fields of Tabasco, Mexico?
19. About ________ percent of the global food supply is produced on small and medium-sized farms and campesino plots.
20. Santiago Cruz contends that the milpa system can spur employment for rural people. How?