Thank you, Professor, for a thoughtful essay. I have struggled with this issue studying indigenous people across the world as other cultures and changing environments encroach and how those indigenous people respond, by adapting, mitigating, improvising, and, in some case, giving up. Their resilience reflects the complexity of the challenges. And those that have been successful have achieved that success within themselves, recognizing that a people need a place, whether for example that special place is Nanih Waiya or 10 1/2 counties in Southeastern Oklahoma, and further recognizing that that special place may not be a geographical place at all , that that special place may be in the hearts and stories of their ancestors and themselves.
Such good points, Professor! The movement of a nation is more complex than it seems. After watching the documentary of the Carteret Islands (South Pacific) sinking into the ocean and the struggle to negotiate a new land area, it was clear that even a relatively small island population is infringing on another nation's space somewhere in the world if they have to move. https://youtu.be/qwkw2aVohnQ?si=Dt5s4pRcM8drNUbe When I think about resettlements in the U.S. due to toxic waste, for example, just moving a neighborhood is divisive and complex and everyone does not come along with the neighborhood. So to your point, every resettlement will have to cope with different factors in a dramatic and life-changing way.
Thank you, Professor, for a thoughtful essay. I have struggled with this issue studying indigenous people across the world as other cultures and changing environments encroach and how those indigenous people respond, by adapting, mitigating, improvising, and, in some case, giving up. Their resilience reflects the complexity of the challenges. And those that have been successful have achieved that success within themselves, recognizing that a people need a place, whether for example that special place is Nanih Waiya or 10 1/2 counties in Southeastern Oklahoma, and further recognizing that that special place may not be a geographical place at all , that that special place may be in the hearts and stories of their ancestors and themselves.
Such good points, Professor! The movement of a nation is more complex than it seems. After watching the documentary of the Carteret Islands (South Pacific) sinking into the ocean and the struggle to negotiate a new land area, it was clear that even a relatively small island population is infringing on another nation's space somewhere in the world if they have to move. https://youtu.be/qwkw2aVohnQ?si=Dt5s4pRcM8drNUbe When I think about resettlements in the U.S. due to toxic waste, for example, just moving a neighborhood is divisive and complex and everyone does not come along with the neighborhood. So to your point, every resettlement will have to cope with different factors in a dramatic and life-changing way.