For my primary research I interviewed Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman, Associate Professor in Latin American Indigenous Cultures. I gained a lot of insight from the knowledge she had to offer in regards to a background in Indigenous Latin American culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clarifying Misconceptions from the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I first came to Dr. Wibbelsman telling her about where I’ve come in so far in my research on Indigenous peoples’, and what I believe the connection might be when it comes to the role they could play with Ohio State Parks. She cleared up some misconceptions that apply to Indigenous people as a whole and how they tend to be identified or perspective from an outsider looking in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “A common misconception is that these people (Indigenous people) are precolonial or from the past these people are contemporary and have contemporary practices”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indigenous Relationship with the Land <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Something I found interesting but wasn’t leaning into including in parts of my research was the spirituality of Indigenous people that goes into their ethics and how they live. I had this assumption the viewpoint people may have, wouldn’t be receptive to this concept. I told this to Dr. Wibbelsman and she had a few things to say about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The land is not a resource its is a person from latin american their perspective is it has a pachamama (means gender)” There is a Pago offering or payment to the land generosity\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Their relationship with the land is not about how you farm the land or extracting from the land<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It is a reciprocal relationship, people do this (Latin Indigenous Americans in this case) by having different festivals, offerings, and food”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What they’re doing redefines the relationship with the land opposed to how western perspective is on the land”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “For the west it is we are trying to take from the land”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “From an indigenous perspective we are not the central\u00a0 ones, we are a part of nature. Everything has agency and perspectives in nature”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Indigenous perspectives redefines humanity to a way we have gotten accustomed to”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nature of the relationship is what I want to focus on. If we change our collective perspective of how we see our relationship with the land and environment, how does this impact the prospective changes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: Artwork by Arvcuken Noquisi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For my primary research I interviewed Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman, Associate Professor in Latin American Indigenous Cultures. I gained a lot of insight from the knowledge she had to offer in regards to a background in Indigenous Latin American culture. Clarifying Misconceptions from the Past I first came to Dr. Wibbelsman telling her about where I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":22370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22392,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/22392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}