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On Oct. 6, the Student Government Association\u2019s Sustainability Committee hosted a conversation open to all on \u201cIndigenous Peoples & Environmental Destruction.\u201d Zo\u00eb Tucker-Borrut, the chair of the committee, moderated the event.<\/p>\n

The guest speaker, Owl of the Munsee Tribe, began with a meditative prayer thanking the Great Spirit for creation. He compared his beliefs with Christian and Semitic theology, and showed overlap in the physics formula E=<\/em>m<\/em>c<\/i>2<\/sup>. After all, most religions agree on the world being alive with an energy or spirit beyond human comprehension.<\/p>\n

Owl showed the role this spiritual concept plays in science by citing Dr. James Lovelock\u2019s book “Gaia,” which hypothesized interdependence between life and the Earth System, \u201cMother Earth.\u201d He also cited Al Gore\u2019s “An Inconvenient\u00a0Truth”\u00a0and the work of Bill McKibben.<\/p>\n

These overarching technical concepts went hand-in-hand with some indigenous beliefs. Owl summarized his grandmother\u2019s teachings of coal being the Earth\u2019s liver, stone as its bones and trees as its lungs. Now, with deforestation as rampant as fossil fuel usage, the damage is becoming apparent.<\/p>\n

About 200,000 people die from air pollution each year in the US alone. \u201cIt is a pandemic every year, that we don\u2019t recognize,\u201d Owl said, explaining how air pollution and COVID-19 work in a deadly team.<\/p>\n

Conditions will only get worse if action is not taken. Owl invited his colleague Maryka Paquette, Communications Manager of Rainforest Foundation US, to speak on the overlap between indigenous and environmental issues in South America.<\/p>\n

Paquette explained the nonprofit was founded 30 years ago when the rainforests first became seen as vital to global ecology. Its initiative focuses on protecting indigenous peoples\u2019s rights to their land and their forests, because the forests they manage are known to have higher biodiversity and carbon management. Today, they are supporting an initiative to give communities in the Amazon drones and GPS technology for monitoring their forests for illegal intrusions.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit also takes legal action on behalf of indigenous communities. Later that day, a member planned on speaking out at a hearing to condemn Peruvian authorities\u2019 failure to act following the assassinations of several indigenous leaders who protested illegal logging. After being postponed seven times, the case was gaining international interest.<\/p>\n

One attendee asked about the reasons behind deforestation. Paquette answered logging, gold mining and destructive styles of agricultural expansion were often overlooked or encouraged by local governments. The true tragedy, she said, was how most sustainable land management methods were ignored by those who favored immediate economic profit over long term sustainability.<\/p>\n

At the end, Tucker-Borrut\u00a0asked Owl, \u201cHow can we as Ramapo College faculty, students and staff be better allies to the Ramapo Mountain peoples?\u201d He replied that this meeting could be the start of a great dialogue, especially since the switch to online meetings could close the distance between those who want to learn more and those who want to teach. He recommended members of the Ramapo community to keep an eye on the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp Facebook page for future events.<\/p>\n

The Ramapo community already has a history of working with the local indigenous communities to protect the environment and their rights. In 2017, students joined protests to defend local land that the Lenape Nation used for religious ceremonies. It was a shining example of how anyone interested in the subjects discussed above must listen, learn and be willing to act.<\/p>\n

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Written by Danielle Bongiovanni (dbongiov@ramapo.edu) on October 10, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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