Brainstorm Week 9 - Natalie Stagnone
Natalie Stagnone
In the article, Indigenous Matters, Millions explains how Indigenous peoples and their cultures have been overlooked and been silenced. Millions writes that “positioning the Indigenous as primitive and unchanging ignores that Indigenous societies are adaptive and creative cultures that live and change in present day” (102). Millions understands the idea of buen vivir as connecting with the Native American’s culture to that of ancestry and mother earth. Furthermore, it connects with the importance placed on tradition and the inferiority placed upon their culture by the conquerors and settlers. In the Ecuadorian context, this connects to the position of the native culture and the fight to reclaim their culture. It also examines the struggle between progression and tradition that argues to keep women in the households. By placing this culture as pre-european it is made out to be unimportant and lacking the ability to have progressive thoughts and ideas, like the breaking down of the gender binary. Likewise, Ybarra discusses buen vivir in the article Goodlife Writing. Ybarra states that “this new conceptualization ‘subordinates economic objectives to ecological criteria, human dignity, and social justice’” (8). Buen vivir is discussed as having a consciousness outside of individualization and for mother earth. This conscious value is placed central in the culture for Chicanos and other groups with Indigenous Roots. It shows how cultures, new and old, are able to prioritize the climate and create a cleaner earth while maintaining their culture and tradition.
In the article, Indigenous Matters, Millions explains how Indigenous peoples and their cultures have been overlooked and been silenced. Millions writes that “positioning the Indigenous as primitive and unchanging ignores that Indigenous societies are adaptive and creative cultures that live and change in present day” (102). Millions understands the idea of buen vivir as connecting with the Native American’s culture to that of ancestry and mother earth. Furthermore, it connects with the importance placed on tradition and the inferiority placed upon their culture by the conquerors and settlers. In the Ecuadorian context, this connects to the position of the native culture and the fight to reclaim their culture. It also examines the struggle between progression and tradition that argues to keep women in the households. By placing this culture as pre-european it is made out to be unimportant and lacking the ability to have progressive thoughts and ideas, like the breaking down of the gender binary. Likewise, Ybarra discusses buen vivir in the article Goodlife Writing. Ybarra states that “this new conceptualization ‘subordinates economic objectives to ecological criteria, human dignity, and social justice’” (8). Buen vivir is discussed as having a consciousness outside of individualization and for mother earth. This conscious value is placed central in the culture for Chicanos and other groups with Indigenous Roots. It shows how cultures, new and old, are able to prioritize the climate and create a cleaner earth while maintaining their culture and tradition.
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