Indigenous Water Justice Course Outline Winter 2018

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Contemporary Indigenous Societies and Issues: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE CANADA S INDIGENOUS WATER CRISIS BY CHIEF LADY BIRD, VICE NEWS CANADA 2017 WINTER 2018 Course Description & Objectives Boil water advisories. Pipeline proliferation. Water protectors. There are 370 million Indigenous Peoples globally many of whom lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Indigenous water security crises continue to mount as disputes over water cause geopolitical instability along sacred rivers and lakes – the life blood of Mother Earth. The world was awakened to some of the water injustices facing Indigenous Nations with the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. As the miner s canary , Indigenous People are on the frontlines of climate change protecting water for future generations. Legal scholars have argued that climate change inaction is a violation of Indigenous treaties; because they are often bounded in language tied to natural elements and waterscapes captured in phrases such as, so long as the rivers flow . But what if anthropogenic climate change and water colonialism make it so that the rivers run dry? This course examines the concept of Indigenous water justice whereby students will explore the development and implementation of water policies in relation to major themes and debates associated with Indigenous water crises. Through facilitated discussions, problem based learning, readings, film, and guest presentations, students will gain a deeper understanding of water injustices facing Indigenous Peoples. The course will place special attention on international water law, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, traditional knowledge, and cultural values of water. The course does not require prior knowledge of water issues. Course Details Course Instructor: Kelsey Leonard, JD Class Times: Wednesday 11:30am-1:20pm Friday 12:30pm-1:20pm Location: MDCL 1009 Office Address: Indigenous Studies Department Office Hours: By Appointment Email: leonardk@mcmaster.ca CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 2 Course Requirements CLASS PARTICIPATION This is a discussion-based course and effective learning—your own and that of others—is contingent on active participation. Full engagement and participation in every class is required, as is your preparation, attendance, and timeliness. Come prepared to discuss the readings as well as the themes for each week in a respectful, informative way. Your completion of shorter weekly assignments is also incorporated into your participation grade. KEY ASSIGNMENT DATES FEBRUARY 2ND: SELECT INDIGENOUS GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS MARCH 14TH: POSTER MARCH 28TH: DIGITAL STORY MAP APRIL 18TH: UPR COUNTRY REPORT PROBLEM BASED LEARNING You will work with a partner to create a poster on an Indigenous water justice issue identifying the values and innovation for water justice from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples. You will present the poster during the McMaster Water Network Spring Water Forum. Classes will alternate to include group exercises modelled around a Problem Based Learning (PBL) framework. Students will be divided into small groups that are tasked with devising solutions to the assigned problem. These groups are responsible for conducting research on the problem, and ultimately presenting their findings and recommendations back to the larger class. PBL group response papers are to be 2pgs in length. DIGITAL STORY MAP UPR COUNTRY REPORT You will work with a partner to introduce an Indigenous water justice issue or controversy that is unfolding in a particular setting. You will provide background and an overview of the pertinent issues, explain relevant policies affecting the issue, and connect it to the course themes. Students will use ESRI Story Map program and conduct research using primary and secondary resources. Detailed instructions will be provided later in the course. Your final assignment will be a country report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Students will individually draft a report utilizing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to examine Indigenous water justice issues covering one of the countries slated to be reviewed in the next UPR session. The report must be at least 5 pages in length single spaced. POSTER COURSE GRADING AND METHODS OF EVALUATION Class Participation 15% PBL Response Papers 20% Poster 20% Digital Story Map 20% Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report 25% GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS Unless noted, all assignments are due via the course site by midnight on the due date noted. Written assignments should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document in Times New Roman, size 12, and double spaced, with 1-inch margins. They should be read carefully and revised before submission. It is often helpful to share writing with a partner for proofreading and feedback. If your partner provides you with an idea, concept, or term that you find yourself using in the paper, include a footnote in which you attribute them with proper credit. CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Required Texts DOWNSTREAM Christian, D., & Wong, R. (2017). Downstream: Reimagining Water. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. DENYING THE SOURCE Phare, M. S. (2009). Denying the Source: The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights. Surrey, B.C.: Rocky Mountain Books. RECOMMENDED BOOKS There are many terrific books on Indigenous water justice. Here are a few recommendations: • • THE WATER WALKER Robertson, J. (2017). The Water Walker. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Second Story Press. • • Required texts may be purchased at the Campus Bookstore. Except where a URL is included, all readings are available for download on the course site. Films • Lake of Betrayal (2017) http://towardcastlefilms.com/filmography/lake-of-betrayal • Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (2017) https://awakethefilm.org/ • DamNation (2017) http://damnationfilm.com/ • The Cherokee Word for Water (2013) http://www.cw4w.com/ • Water on the Table (2010) https://www.nfb.ca/film/water_on_the_table/ • Paya: The Water Story of the Paiutes (2015) http://payathemovie.com • Daughter of the Lake (2015) https://cinelasamericas.org/panorama-feature-filmsclaiff19/2016/hija-de-la-laguna • Oil and Water (2014) http://www.oilandwaterdocumentary.com/ • Can’t Stop the Water http://www.cantstopthewater.com • • • • • Dokis, Carly A. Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-state Relations in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016. Hauptman, Laurence M. In the Shadow of Kinzua: the Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. Hoover, Elizabeth. The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Loftus, Alex, and Farhana Sultana. The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. London: Earthscan, 2012. Marshall, Virginia, and M. D. Kirby. Overturning Aqua Nullius: Securing Aboriginal Water Rights. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2017. McCool, Daniel. Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era. Univ Of Arizona Press, 2006. Norman, Emma S. Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous communities. Routledge, 2017. Perry, Adele. Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember. Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2016. Thorson, John E., Sarah Britton, and Bonnie G. Colby. Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. 3 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 1: WATER + JUSTICE Water must never be a reason for rivalry or competition. Water must be a source of cooperation and of shared security and prosperity. Let us remember that water is our primary source of life. So this is also, fundamentally, an existential challenge and a moral obligation. – United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson Friday, January 5th • Freshwater Quiz: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater101-quiz/ Recommended Reading: • • Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Boelens, R. (2014). Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: Some conceptual building blocks for research and action. Water International, 39(2), 143-158. Robison, J., Cosens, B., Jackson, S., Leonard, K., & McCool, D. (2017). Indigenous Water Justice. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3013470. WEEK 2: WATER + INDIGENOUS RIGHTS We must look forward and keep firm the standards they set for us, and continue to fight for the seventh generation coming. Our work represents peace for them. When they read and experience this Declaration on the Rights of the World s Indigenous Peoples and experience their right to self-determination, in the full sense of the word, equal to all under law, they will think kindly of us and sing songs about us, because they will know that we loved them. – Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation Wednesday, January 10th Required Readings: • • • • Phare, M. S. (2009). Denying the Source: The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights. Surrey, B.C.: Rocky Mountain Books, pg. IX-44. UN General Assembly, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: resolution / adopted by the General Assembly, 2 October 2007, A/RES/61/295, available at: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf. Basic Facts about the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) (Nov 2008) (1 page) http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/upr/pages/BasicFacts.aspx. Koh, (arold . (ow is )nternational (uman Rights Law Enforced, )ndiana Law Journal, Vol. , pp. 1396-1417 https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2279&context=ilj. Case Law: • Winters v. United States 4 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Friday, January 12th Required Reading: • Downstream, Water by Lee Maracle, 33-38. Recommended Readings: • • Daes, Erica-Irene A. Working Paper on the Concept of 'Indigenous People'. Geneva: UN SubCommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 1996. McCreary, T. (2005). Settler Treaty Rights. Briarpatch Magazine. http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/settler-treaty-rights/. WEEK 3: WATER + MAPPING Water is the first medicine; it sustains us in our mother's womb. It's used in ceremonies to heal people. The steam it gives off in a sweat lodge, for example, purifies. Water can clean a spirit when it's bleeding. It can calm a person and restore balance. Its power goes even deeper, though. Water has memory. When people speak or sing to it during a ceremony, it is believed that the water holds on to what it hears and can later share what it learns. One hundred years from now, somebody's going to go down along the Cannonball River and they're going to hear those stories. They're going to hear those songs. They're going to hear that memory of what happened here at this camp." – Faith Spotted Eagle, Yankton Sioux Nation Wednesday, January 16th Required Readings: • • Phare, M. S. (2009). Denying the Dource: The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights. Surrey, B.C.: Rocky Mountain Books, pg. 45-89. Hunt, D., & Stevenson, S. A. (2017). Decolonizing geographies of power: Indigenous digital countermapping practices on Turtle Island. Settler Colonial Studies, 7(3), 372-392. Friday, January 19th Required Readings: • • Downstream, Permeable Toronto by Janine MacLeod, 241-257. McGregor, D. & Whitaker, S. (2001). Water Quality in The Province of Ontario - An Aboriginal Knowledge Perspective. Report prepared for Chiefs of Ontario, available here: http://www.chiefs-of-ontario.org/sites/default/files/files/TEKwaterCOOpaperWORD.pdf 5 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 4: WATER + DEVELOPMENT The Two Row Wampum is about peace and friendship. As long as the grass grows green, water flows downhill, and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the wampum belt has meaning. It s an agreement—you stay in your ship; we stay in our canoe. – Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation Wednesday, January 24th Required Readings: • • Whyte, K., Reo, N., McGregor, D., Smith, M.A., Jenkins, J., & Rubio, K. (2017). Seven Indigenous principles for successful cooperation in Great Lakes conservation initiatives. 182-194. Norman, E. S. (2017). Standing up for inherent rights: The role of Indigenous-led activism in protecting sacred waters and ways of life. Society & Natural Resources, 30(4), 537-553. Case Law: • Gitxaala Nation v. Canada Friday, January 26th PBL #1 Due Required Readings: • • Downstream, Water: The First Foundation of Life by Mona Polacca, -87. Radonic, L. (2017). Through the aqueduct and the courts: An analysis of the human right to water and Indigenous water rights in northwestern Mexico. Geoforum, 84(Complete), 151-159. WEEK 5: WATER + PERSONHOOD The reason we have taken this approach is because we consider the river an ancestor and always have. We have fought to find an approximation in law so that all others can understand that from our perspective treating the river as a living entity is the correct way to approach it, as in indivisible whole, instead of the traditional model for the last 100 years of treating it from a perspective of ownership and management. - Gerrard Albert, the lead negotiator for the Whanganui iwi 6 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Wednesday, January 31st Required Readings: • • • Daly, E. (2012). Constitutional protection for environmental rights: The benefits of environmental process. International Journal of Peace Studies, 17(2), 71-80. Smith, J. L. (2017). I, river?: New materialism, riparian non‐human agency and the scale of democratic reform. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58(1), 99-111. Youatt, R. (2017). Personhood and the Rights of Nature: The New Subjects of Contemporary Earth Politics. International Political Sociology, 11(1), 39–54. Legislation: • • Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill, http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2016/0129/latest/whole.html#DLM6831546. s. 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-16.html#h-52. Case Law: • Minors Oposa v. Secretary of the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Friday, February 2nd Indigenous Geographic Focus Selection Due Required Readings: • • Raumati Hook, G., & Parehaereone Raumati, L. (2011). Cultural Perspectives of Fresh Water. The MAI Review, 6(2), 1-15. McGregor, D. (2012). Traditional knowledge: Considerations for protecting water in Ontario. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 3(11), 1-21. Recommended Readings: • • Turkewitz, J. (2017, September 26). Corporations have rights. Why not rivers? New York Times, Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/us/does-the-colorado-river-have-rights-alawsuit-seeks-to-declare-it-a-person.html Anaya, J. (2005). Indigenous Peoples' Participatory Rights in Relation to Decisions about Natural Resource Extraction: The More Fundamental Issue of What Rights Indigenous Peoples Have in Lands and Resources, 22 ARIZ. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 7-17. WEEK 6: WATER + GOVERNANCE Our relationship with our lands, territories and water is the fundamental physical cultural and spiritual basis for our existence. This relationship to our Mother Earth requires us to conserve our freshwaters and oceans for the survival of present and future generations. We assert our role as caretakers with rights and responsibilities to defend and ensure the protection, availability and purity of water. We stand united to follow and implement our knowledge and traditional laws and exercise our right of self-determination to preserve water, and to preserve life. - Indigenous Peoples Kyoto Water Declaration (2003) 7 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Wednesday, February 7th Required Readings: • • • Black, K., & McBean, E. (2017). Indigenous water, indigenous voice – a national water strategy for Canada s Indigenous communities. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue Canadienne Des Ressources Hydriques, 42(3), 248-257. Wilson, N. J. (2014). Indigenous water governance: Insights from the hydrosocial relations of the Koyukon Athabascan village of Ruby, Alaska. Geoforum, 57(Complete), 1-11. Kanwar, P., Kaza, S., & Bowden, W. B. (2016). An evaluation of Māori values in multiscalar environmental policies governing Kaipara harbour in New Zealand. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 32(1), 26-42. Case Law: • Tsilhqot in Nation v. British Columbia Friday, February 9th Required Readings: • • Downstream, Listening to the Elders by Radha D Souza, -206. Ransom, J. W., & Ettenger, K. T. . Polishing the Kaswentha : A Haudenosaunee view of environmental cooperation. Environmental Science and Policy, 4(4-5), 219-228. Recommended Readings: • • • • von der Porten, S., de Loë, R. E., & McGregor, D. (2016). Incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems into collaborative governance for water: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'Études Canadiennes, 50(1), 214-243. McGregor, Deborah. (2008). Linking Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science: Aboriginal Perspectives From the 2000 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 28(1), 139-158. Castleden, H. E. , Hart, C. , Harper, S. , Martin, D. , Cunsolo, A. , Stefanelli, R. , Day, L. , Lauridsen, K. (2017). Implementing Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems in Water Research and Management (Part 1): A Systematic Realist Review to Inform Water Policy and Governance in Canada. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4). Castleden, H. E. , Martin, D. , Cunsolo, A. , Harper, S. , Hart, C. , Sylvestre, P. , Stefanelli, R. , Day, L. , Lauridsen, K. . )mplementing )ndigenous and Western Knowledge Systems Part : You (ave to Take a Backseat and Abandon the Arrogance of Expertise. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(4). 8 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 7: WATER + MEDIA Media coverage of Aboriginal issues remains problematic; social media and online commentary are often inflammatory and racist in nature. - Truth and Reconciliation Commission Wednesday, February 14th Required Readings: • • • Lam, S., Cunsolo, A., Sawatzky, A., Ford, J., & Harper, S. L. (2017). How does the media portray drinking water security in Indigenous communities in Canada? An analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage from 2000-2015. BMC Public Health, 17. Jeffrey, R. (2016). Reserves in Alberta Are at The Forefront Of A National Drinking Water Crisis. http://albertaventure.com/water/reserves-in-alberta-are-at-the-forefront-of-a-national-drinkingwater-crisis-heres-what-theyre-doing-to-end-it/. Vice News Canada. (2017). Canada s )ndigenous Water Crisis. https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/3kpjby/canadas-indigenous-water-crisis. Case Law: • Boldt Decision Friday, February 16th PBL #2 Due Required Reading: • Mufson, S. , November . A Dakota pipeline s last stand. Washington Post, Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-dakota-pipelines-laststand/2016/11/25/35a5dd32-b02c-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html. Recommended Reading: • Hopke, J. E. (2012). Water gives life: Framing an environmental justice movement in the mainstream and alternative Salvadoran press. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(3), 365-382. WEEK 8: READING WEEK Wednesday, February 21st – NO CLASS Friday, February 23rd – NO CLASS 9 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 9: WATER + ENERGY We are not opposed to energy independence. We are opposed to reckless and politically motivated development projects, like DAPL, that ignore our treaty rights and risk our water. Creating a second Flint does not make America great again. – David Archambault II, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wednesday, February 28th Required Reading: • • Riethof, M. (2017). The international human rights discourse as a strategic focus in socio-environmental conflicts: The case of hydro-electric dams in Brazil. The International Journal of Human Rights, 21(4), 482-499. Zanotti, L. (2015). Water and life: Hydroelectric development and Indigenous pathways to justice in the Brazilian amazon. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 3(4), 666-672. Case Law: • • • Seneca Nation of Indians v. Brucker Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Clyde River (Hamlet) v. Petroleum Geo-Services Inc. Friday, March 2nd Required Reading: • Emanuel, R. E. (2017). Flawed environmental justice analyses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 357(6348), 260. Recommended Reading: • Phare, M-A., Simms, R., Brandes, O.M., Miltenberger, M. (2017). Collaborative Consent and British Columbia s Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance. POLIS Project on Ecological Governance and Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources. Available at: https://poliswaterproject.org/polisresearch-publication/collaborative-consent-british-columbias-water-towards-watershed-cogovernance/. 10 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 10: WATER + INFRASTRUCTURE We want to be able to help govern the water. That s what the water board is supposed to do is govern the water for the betterment of the valley, and that s where we feel they re lacking. It is a little frustrating because the water agencies, that s their way to get to the public and create this fear that the tribe is greedy, that all they're thinking about is money. But if you look at my tribe s history, we ve never put ourselves first. We ve never made all of our decisions based on revenues. … We re thinking about the whole community. - Jeff Grubbe, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Tribal Chairman Wednesday, March 7th Required Readings: • • Black, K., & McBean, E. (2017). Communitybased operator training and appropriate certification regimes for Indigenous water and wastewater systems. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue Canadienne Des Ressources Hydriques, 42(3), 237-247. Hemming, S., D. Rigney, S. L. Muller, G. Rigney, and I. Campbell. 2017. A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health. Ecology and Society 22(2):13. Case Law: • • Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Coachella Valley Water District Halalt First Nation v. British Columbia Friday, March 9th Required Reading: • Collins, L., McGregor, D., Allen, S., Murray, C., & Metcalfe, C. (2017). Source Water Protection Planning for Ontario First Nations Communities: Case Studies Identifying Challenges and Outcomes. Water, 9(7). Recommend Reading: • Morales, S., (2006). A Glass Half Empty: Drinking Water in First Nations Communities. Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi). Paper 124. 11 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 WEEK 11: WATER + GENDER As women, we are carriers of the water. We carry life for the people. So when we carry that water, we are telling people that we will go any lengths for the water. We ll probably even give our lives for the water if we have to. – Josephine Mandamin, Ojibwe Wikwemikong First Nation Wednesday, March 14th Poster Due Required Readings: • • • Robertson, J. (2017). The Water Walker. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Second Story Press. Anderson, K., Clow, B., & Haworth-Brockman, M. . Carriers of water: Aboriginal women s experiences, relationships, and reflections. Journal of Cleaner Production, 60(Complete), 11-17. McGregor, D. (2008). Anishnaabe-Kwe, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Protection. Canadian Woman Studies, 26 (3), 26-30. Friday, March 16th PBL #3 Due Required Readings: • • Downstream, Keepers of the Water by Renee Bedard, -106. Downstream, Water Walk Pedagogy by Violet Caibaiosai, -112. WEEK 12: WATER + CLIMATE CHANGE As the salmon disappear so do our tribal cultures and treaty rights. We are at a crossroads and we are running out of time. – Billy Frank, Jr. Wednesday, March 21st Required Readings: • • Downstream, Coastal Waters in Distress from Excessive Nutrients by Paul J. (arrison, -215. Maldonado, J., Shearer, C., Bronen, R., Peterson, K., & Lazrus, H. (2013). The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: Displacement, relocation, and human rights. Climatic Change, 120(3), 601-614. 12 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 • Gautam, M., Chief, K., & Smith, W. (2013). Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the pyramid lake Paiute tribe. Climatic Change, 120(3), 585599. Case Law: • Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corporation Friday, March 23rd Required Reading: • Dittmer, K. (2013). Changing streamflow on Columbia Basin tribal lands—climate change and salmon. Climatic Change, 120(3), 627-641. WEEK 13: WATER + HEALTH Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn t make a corporation a terrorist. – Winona LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe Wednesday, March 28th Digital Story Map Due Required Readings: • • Gagnon, V. . Ojibwe gichigami Ojibwa s great sea : An intersecting history of treaty rights, tribal fish harvesting, and toxic risk in Keweenaw Bay, United States. Water History, 8(4), 365-384. Harvey, T. S. (2012). Cyanobacteria blooms: Maya peoples between the politics of risk and the threat of disaster. Medical Anthropology, 31(6), 477-496. Case Law: • People v. Jondreau Legislation: • Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act (2013) Friday, March 30th – NO CLASS 13 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 Recommended Readings: • • • • O Neill, C. . Protecting the tribal harvest: The right to catch and consume fish Vol. J. ENVTL. L. & LITIG. 131-151. Bradford, L. E. A., Bharadwaj, L. A., Okpalauwaekwe, U., & Waldner, C. L. (2016). Drinking water quality in Indigenous communities in Canada and health outcomes: A scoping review. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 75. Ballantine, A. (2017). The River Mouth Speaks: Water Quality as Storyteller in Decolonization of the Port of Tacoma. Water History 9(1), 45–66. Boyd, D. R. (2011). No taps, no toilets: First Nations and the constitutional right to water in Canada. McGill Law Journal, 57(1), 81-134. WEEK 14: WATER + ECONOMY Wednesday, April 4th Required Readings: • • Strang, V. (2014). The Taniwha and the Crown: defending water rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 1, 121-131. Bark, R. H., Garrick, D. E., Robinson, C. J., & Jackson, S. (2012). Adaptive basin governance and the prospects for meeting Indigenous water claims. Environmental Science and Policy, 19-20, 169-177. Case Law: • Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Washington State Department of Ecology Friday, April 6th PBL #4 Due Required Readings: • • • Jones, C., Murray, W. E., and Overton, J. (2017). FIJI Water, water everywhere: Global brands and democratic and social injustice. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58: 112–123. Jaffee, D., & Newman, S. (2013). A bottle half empty: Bottled water, commodification, and contestation. Organization & Environment, 26(3), 318-335. Phare, M.A., Whose Water Is It? Aboriginal Water Rights and International Trade Agreements. http://www.horizons.gc.ca/en/content/feature-article-%E2%80%93-whose-water-it-aboriginalwater-rights-and-international-trade%C2%A0agreements. Recommended Reading: • Barnes, J. (2013). Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink: The false promise of virtual water. Critique of Anthropology, 33(4), 371-389. Final UPR Report Due April 18, 2018 14 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 RECOMMENDED ONLINE RESOURCES • • • • • • • • • • • • • Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC): www.fpic.info Idle No More (INM): http://www.idlenomore.ca/ COURSE WEBSITE Honor the Earth Website: http://www.honorearth.org Indigenous Action Media: http://www.indigenousaction.org/about-2/ Intercontinental Cry Magazine: http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenousresistance-in- canada/ Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/ Native American Water Rights Settlement Project: http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nawrs/ United Nations for Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenous peoples/ The course site for INDIG ST 2C03 will be an important resource for completing and submitting assignments, obtaining course materials, keeping track of due dates, and communicating with one another. We will be using Avenue2Learn for the course site. Please bookmark it and check it frequently for updates. WaterDocs An Ecologos Film Festival: http://www.waterdocs.ca/ UN Water: http://www.unwater.org/ International Rivers: http://www.internationalrivers.org/ Canadian Water Network: http://www.cwnrce.ca/focus-areas/small-and-indigenouscommunities/ #StandingRockSyllabus – NYC Stands with Standing Rock: https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.co m/standingrocksyllabus/ SHARE #IWJ18 The course will utilize social media to capture new water issues and Indigenous water rights advocacy. Share articles, photos, videos, reflections, etc. with the hashtag #IWJ18 The images contained in this syllabus should not be downloaded, copied, retained, printed, shared, modified, or otherwise used beyond the permitted educational uses. 15 CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES AND ISSUES: INDIGENOUS WATER JUSTICE | INDIG ST 2C03 | WINTER 2018 16 Course Policies and Resources Academic Dishonesty Names and Pronouns Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript notation reads: Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty , and/or suspension or expulsion from the university. The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty: • • • Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one s own or for which other credit has been obtained. Improper collaboration in group work. Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations. It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, located at: • http://www.mcmaster.ca/polic y/StudentsAcademicStudies/AcademicInt egrity.pdf McMaster Student Absence Form (MSAF) In the event of an absence for medical or other reasons, students should review and follow the Academic Regulation in the Undergraduate Calendar Requests for Relief for Missed Academic Term Work . This form can be located here: http://mcmaster.ca/msaf/. If you go by a different name or gender pronoun than the one under which you are officially enrolled, please inform me. Students are expected to respectfully refer to each other by preferred names and pronouns during class discussions. Disabilities + Accommodations Students who require academic accommodation must contact Student Accessibility Services (SAS) to make arrangements with a Program Coordinator. Academic accommodations must be arranged for each term of study. Student Accessibility Services can be contacted by phone 905-525-9140 ext. 28652 or email sas@mcmaster.ca. For further information, consult McMaster University s Policy for Academic Accommodation of Students with Disabilities: • http://www.mcmaster.ca/polic y/StudentsAcademicStudies/AcademicAc commodationStudentsWithDisabilities.pdf. If you already have documentation indicating that you need accommodations, please provide that information privately. All inquiries and discussions about accommodations will remain confidential. Electronic Devices No electronic devices will be allowed during tests and examinations. Standing Rock Fundraising Poster Reclaim Your Power, Marilyn Fox, 2016. Cell Phones Please turn off your ringer during class. There will be a break during which you can use your phones, otherwise please no texting during class. There may be times when you can use your phones to search for relevant information on the class discussion, but I will let you know when. Laptop Policy You are welcome to use your laptop or tablet for class-related writing and activities, except as noted by the instructor for in-class assignments. Checking Facebook or email during class will not be tolerated. The instructor will provide updates to the syllabus periodically. The instructor and university reserve the right to modify elements of the course during the term. The university may change the dates and deadlines for any or all courses in extreme circumstances. If either type of modification becomes necessary, reasonable notice and communication with the students will be given with explanation and the opportunity to comment on changes. It is the responsibility of the student to check their McMaster email and course websites weekly during the term and to note any changes.