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Unit 5: Global Indigenous Solidarity

Transnational Movements & Shared Struggles

🌍 Global Studies 🤝 Solidarity ⚖️ Justice

Indigenous Knowledge as Global Solution

Indigenous peoples represent less than 5% of the global population but protect 80% of biodiversity. This unit examines how Indigenous knowledge offers crucial solutions to climate change, inequality, and justice.

"He waka eke noa"

We are all in this together.

Unit Modules

1

Indigenous Worldviews

Shared values, diverse expressions. Relationality and reciprocity across cultures.

Values Protocols
2

Global Colonialism

Analysing colonialism as a global system. Patterns of dispossession and extraction.

History Systems
3

Resistance Networks

From AIM to Idle No More. Building transnational solidarity movements.

Activism Solidarity
4

Climate Justice

Indigenous leadership in the climate crisis. Traditional ecological knowledge in action.

Climate Science
5

UNDRIP in Action

Rights, responsibilities, and the global legal frameworks protecting Indigenous mana.

Law Rights

Global Framework

Global Analysis

  • Comparative Studies: Identifying patterns.
  • Network Analysis: Mapping connections.

Cross-Curricular

  • Geography: Land rights.
  • Science: Eco-knowledge.

Contemporary

  • Climate: Protection.
  • Tech: Digital sovereignty.