First Nation placename mapping for Tiohtiake (Greater Montreal region) & across Quebec

Organization:

Sustainable Development Association (SDC-CDD)

Project Description:

A team of artists are developing artistic renditions of our Geographic Information System GIS mapping of 105 Mohawk placenames from 2000. We need students with artistic and technical abilities to aid in the rendering.

In 450 years the long tens of thousands of years of First Nation heritage have received no recognition or effort from colonial governments and institutions for compiling essential heritage material for our people and region. Governments and institutions are afraid of impacts of recognizing indigenous sovereignty and challenges to their own usurped authorities. Come and join us in celebration of 'indigenous' (Latin = 'self-generating') heritage for sustainable development.

Maps highlighting indigenous people, culture, trees, plants, animals and ecology are being developed to celebrate human, biosphere and environmental strengths here. Maps and text will be used in education, eco-tourism and popular education. This Indigenous Knowledge is key for understanding how to live in harmony with each other and places today.

As we understand indigenous heritage, we understand more about our place, our relations, ourselves and natural abundant economy for sustaining each other today. Part of this project invites peoples from everywhere on earth to understand their own indigenous roots from every place on earth and thus the foundation for an international sustainable future.

Description of final product:

Research Paper, Survey, Informational Phamplet or Kit, Video or Audio Piece, Computer Related , Feasibility Study, Grant Proposal, Program Design, Literature Review, Evaluation Report, Artistic Renditions for Popular Education and Media

Education or skills required from student:

Students are welcome from every national background, domain, skill-level, training and interest.

Duration of Project:

2 - 5 hours per week for 12 weeks depending on student involvement

About the organization:

The Sustainable Development Corporation du developpement durable SDC-CDD is a Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) Canadian Non-Profit since 1994 working in a participatory inter-disciplinary way with students, citizens, organizations, business, institutions & governments on ecological-economic design.