Courses for Environmental Justice and Indigeneity in Sāmoa

ES 488/588 Indigenous Environmental Justice in Sāmoa (40 Contact Hours – 4 credits)

ES 488/588 Samoan Culture: Indigeneity Beyond Settler Colonialism (40 Contact Hours – 4 credits)

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Indigenous Environmental Justice in Sāmoa

Read more about Indigenous Environmental Justice in Sāmoa Indigenous environmental justice describes an approach to addressing environmental issues that centers Indigenous rights and knowledge over lands, oceans and skies. In Sāmoa, global markets for overfishing and resource extraction as well as climate change and rising sea levels impacts the people, environment, and culture of…
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Samoan Culture: Indigeneity Beyond Settler Colonialsim

Read more about Samoan Culture: Indigeneity Beyond Settler Colonialsim The independent nation of Sāmoa has a vibrant history from its precolonial era to colonial occupationand active missionization in the 19th century to independence in 1962. Today, the archipelago has amajority Samoan population at 92%, Samoan language is spoken by nearly 100% of the totalpopulation,…
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