Racist Schooling Response

     Education can really be a deadly tool when it comes to conforming others. The article" Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires:Coast Salish cultural survival." makes some serious references to this being a weapon. Indigenous people were washed of their culture and mindsets while in schools. the children would be taught what the dominating culture considered right and wrong. Most of the wrongs were things their culture thought. This was used a plethora in history, like the natives in the west. As America grew more room was needed and they natives had to either keep moving or join, fighting wasn't an option against the growing country. By joining the natives would have to walk and talk the way the average american would and also have to live they way they lived. The lifestyles completely changed for the natives.

     Education could be used as a serious tool and its very important to keep an eye on what schools are teaching the youth. Education could easily conform.

Food Sustainability

In upstate New York town of Worsbrough there aren't many options to where your food comes from. Choices are limited unless one would want to drive longer then 30 minutes to go to the "local" Target or other main names in the food business including Food Lion, Harris Teeter, etc. In the small town there are about two locally owned shops to buy groceries. The option of growing food for oneself would be near to impossible due to the freezing temperatures most of the year. Some food could be grown but not a variety, nor enough to sustain a family let alone a single person. If a citizen want to buy a specific type of food product or a specific food process done, then options are limited and there is a good chance that citizen will have to deal with it, or venture elsewhere including a minimum of an hour drive.

Environmental Ethics

When the Wilderness and the American Mind was published in 1967 the author Roderick Nash established himself as the head authority in American attitude towards nature. Nash wrote about the evolution of Americans relationship with the environment. Nash discusses the rights of nonhumans in nature and that those must be respected to keep a healthy balance. This respect was necessary to keep a balance between humans and their bioregion, they needed to respect nature in order to keep it healthy and also to sustain themselves. This published piece is also an important today in todays terms, the environment is not being respected as it once was.