Write a 1500 word letter to the editor about a contemporary issue related to our course concepts. Example issues could include:
-Dakota Access Pipeline (or other pipelines/construction projects on NA land).
-Climate change and destruction of ecosystems
– Evangelizing/religious “Mission work” imposed on Indigenous people, religion that does not consider space
– “Color-blind” racism (racism that seeks to ignore racial/ethnic differences)
– Portrayal of the infallibility of Western science
– Our treatment of non-human animals (factory farms, experimentation)
-Capitalism/consumerism, viewing the natural world monetarily rather than having intrinsic value
-Ongoing desecration of Native American sacred sites
-Federal govt’s ongoing violation of treaties made with Native American tribes
-Western individualism/competition
