Thursday, 10/8: Guest Speaker and Environmental Ethics Lecture, Day 1

 Starter 3: Write this in your October starter docs

1. Read Becky Clausen's bio (see the bottom of today’s DP) and write down 1 question for her
2. Review the Environmental Ethics Key Terms Handout 

• Star the terms that resonate with your own values/beliefs
• Put a ? next to the ones you want to understand more about 
• Why would it be important to study Environmental Ethics? Why should we think about our individual and collective obligations to the environment and each other?

Links You'll Need for Class Today

• Environmental Ethics Key Terms Handout  
• Environmental Ethics Lecture 
• Tonight's short reading assignment:  Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous Places by Jacqueline Keeler 

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Reminders!
1. Due Friday, 10/9: Read  Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous Places by Jacqueline Keeler  (pages 64-66 only) and reply to my question on our STREAM for google classroom! This will be a participation grade.

• You'll need to "download" and then re-open this document and then you can rotate it to view it horizontally. I'm also handing out hard copies in class.

2.  Don't forget about the Senior Project Brainstorm, Phase 1- due 10/22!
3. A's and C's Conferences Schedule Reminders

• Today: Jake and Rosie
• Tomorrow: Ainsley and Patrick

4. Flex/Sven Schedule listed on my DP below the link to our google meet . Starting the week of 10/22, we'll be asking those students who are currently not passing Stats of Humanities to stay for Sven until they've made up missing work.

TODAY's AGENDA

1. Guest Speaker: Becky Clausen, FLC Professor
2. Discuss your thoughts and reactions to Becky's presentation
3. BREAK!
4. Justice Monologue Make-ups (Sarah, Molly, Chris, Kandice, Patrick, Owen, Xavier)
5. Environmental Ethics Lecture  - but first finish the starter and let’s hear what you came up with for question #4​
6. Context on tomorrow's film (what's the film about + tribal sovereignty + important maps) 
   
7. Time to read the homework assignment!

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS LECTURE POWERPOINT

About our Guest Speaker: Becky Clausen

Becky Clausen is a professor of  Sociology & Human Services at Fort Lewis College who has been doing qualitative research to examine the effects of the Gold King Mine spill on Navajo farmers on the Navajo reservation.  In conjunction with Navajo scholars, she has interviewed over 100 farmers to understand the long-term impacts of the mine spill on both their farming practices as well as the social-psychological impacts.  She’ll speak to the ways in which the same event can impact different communities in very different ways.

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Here is her bio:
Rebecca Clausen is the chair and an associate professor of Sociology and Human Services at Fort Lewis College. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program. She joined the college in 2008 from the University of Oregon, where she was a graduate teaching fellow in sociology and environmental studies. Clausen is an environmental sociologist whose research interests include the social drivers of environmental change, the political economy of global food systems, and marine fishery degradation. Her current research focuses on the social and emotional impacts of the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill to farming communities on the Navajo Nation. 
Dr. Clausen actively publishes her research in journals such as Sustainability and Society and Natural Resources. In 2015, Clausen co-authored and published The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture which contributed to defining a new field of Marine Sociology. She is a reviewer for several journals, including the American Sociological Review, Conservation Biology, and Sociology of Development.
Dr. Clausen is actively involved in college committees such as the Institutional Review Board. She teaches a summer field course, Ecology and Society, and travels with students for five weeks to different communities around the Four Corners. She is an advisor for the FLC Sociology Club, which runs the Grub Hub, a student-run food bank for FLC students.
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For FRIDAY's CLASS
Beyond Standing Rock: Film (1 hour, 10 minutes)

Take notes as you watch on these questions:

1. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: *How does the film answer the question of how we should balance energy needs with the rights of people to their health and homes and with the health of the environment and the claim to sacred lands??
2. What are the  various arguments for and against the Dakota Access Pipeline?
3. How do economic, social and environmental considerations come into play with the three issues presented in this film?
4. ​What questions does this film raise for you?
5. What are other ideas that stand out to you? Definitely take notes on the Bears Ears section and the various arguments for/against the Monument.

​Watching the film, Beyond Standing Rock
1. What is the film about? Let's read the film description below

2. What is tribal sovereignty? 

• Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state and in the maintenance of order.
• Tribal Sovereignty - American Indian tribes existed as sovereign governments long before Europeans came to North America. Before the American Revolution, treaties were signed by American Indian nations with European governments. Following their independence, the United States government guaranteed continued federal recognition and treatment of tribes as sovereign governments in exchange for land. This guarantee included protected jurisdiction within the boundaries of reservations and other lands held in trust for tribes by the U.S. government

More Context on the Film

1. We'll watch these three short google map flyovers of important areas relevant to the film
2. If you want to learn more, check out this syllabus for Standing Rock

About Beyond Standing Rock
 BEYOND STANDING ROCK takes a close look at the Dakota Access pipeline, Bears Ears National Monument and other US/tribal clashes across the country.
The films take viewers to the front lines of the protests on the North Dakota plains and also investigates the ongoing legal struggle behind the protests.
In addition to the Dakota Access pipeline controversy, BEYOND STANDING ROCK looks at how Colorado’s Southern Ute Tribe has taken control over their own oil and gas resources, creating an economic powerhouse and changing the lives of tribal members.

Finally, BEYOND STANDING ROCK puts viewers right in the
middle of a heated land war over the new Bears Ears National Monument in Southeast Utah. Utah lawmakers want President Trump to overturn the designation of the new monument, while a coalition of tribes argues for collaborative management of monument lands.
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