Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science

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ETHICAL SPACE
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Broad Historic Overview

• Two Worlds circa 1492

• Engaged Fur trade

• Disengaged rupture of fur trade

• Engaged treaty negotiations

• Disengaged breach of treaty

• Engaged forced engagement

• Entangled - need to Disengage

• Re-engage futuristic - in ethical manner

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What is Ethical Space?
Roger Pooles Term
The elusive area between entities
A Space we previously thought was empty
Unseen, unspoken, undercurrent
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Ethical Space
Is about our notions of good, virtues,
obligations, right, duty
It is about our spirit, our mind, our heart, our
humanity
The unseen, mysterious, animating force in each
of us
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Ethicsis about human boundaries
Boundaries imposed by self
Boundaries imposed by family
Boundaries imposed by cultural imperatives such
as religion, community ethos
Boundaries imposed by collective principles
such as knowledge, law
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Ethics
Our basic capacity to recognize what harms and
enhances the well being of sentient creatures
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IT IS ABOUT OUR HUMANITY
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Western World
Indigenous World
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Undercurrent
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WHAT IS THE UNDERCURRENT?
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The Undercurrent

• An Established Consciousness

• Western mind (history, thought, values)
• (Seeks universality, mono-culture)

• A model of society / presented as the norm

• Advanced by its centers of authority, State
  apparatus

• Contains Indigenous Peoples Image

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Engagement
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THE INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE
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Indigenous Experience

• Indigenous Peoples reality

Indigenous Model Wakomakanak (Relations)

• Oral histories

Masses

• Values, rights, morals

• Knowledge system / tradition

Centre

• Worldview, philosophies

• Ethos

Epistemological Horizon
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WHAT IS HEALTH?
MIYOMACIHOWIN
MIYO
MACI
HO
WIN
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MIYO AYA WIN
THE SYSTEM OF or THE WAY OF ITS UNFOLDING
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STATEMENT
UNSURE BEGINNINGS
HEALING LODGE
ONE MEDICINE LADY
TRAINING
MEDICINAL PLANTS
HARVESTING
PHARMACY
TRADITIONAL HEALING CLINICS
RESEARCH
ETHICS AND PROTOCOL
MENTAL HEALTH
MIDWIFERY
RESEARCH
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THE HUMAN
The Ethos The Enfolded Being
The Narrative, The History, The reality
The Memory Work
Who are you?
What is your gift to the world
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World communities
Western Society
Indigenous Society
Ethical Space
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The Indigenous Gaze
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Indigenous Gaze
Remembers
A mirror
Measure of Society
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Ethical Space

• Affirm the space

• Outside the box Create new thought

• Work as Catalyst to Develop Humanity

• Vulnerability

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A COMMON FRAMEWORK FOR THE ETHICS OF THE 21ST
CENTURY
RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE
HUMAN FULFILLMENT
INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
JUSTICE
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Wants to be free
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