This is the last segment for the beginning of settlement. The installments from here on in focus on the entire Permaculture curriculum.
A. Religion and Spirituality: How did the local native peoples of your bioregion practice spirituality?
a. Big house ceremony
i. Masks of nature spirits will be created by students
ii. See discussion of Mesingwe on page 46 of text
iii. A stomp dance will be created for final ceremony
b. Guardian spirits (Mesingwe)
c. Ceremonies and rituals
d. Vision quest (students will participate in short vision quest and record their insights in journals)
B. Death and Burial
C. Warfare
D. Changes after European Settlement
a. There will be a simulation of the Dutch visiting our camp at the end of the ceremony
b. What questions will arise? How did the Europeans change the existing landscape? What did they come here for? Was there room for both cultures to exist alongside one another? If not, what happened and who left and why?
Integration and Applications of Sciences and Arts (examples of these areas are reflected in the day to day skills of local native peoples; for example: What does friction fire making look like through the eyes of the physicist or chemist?)
A. Science
a. Physics
b. Chemistry
c. Biology
B. Mathematics
C. History (politics, economics, social implications)
D. Geography (and settlement)
E. Music and the Arts
a. Architecture
b. Sculpture
c. Drawing and painting
d. Music
e. Poetry
f. Drama (ritual) and Recitation
g. Dance and Movement
F. Language Studies
G. Handicrafts and Handwork: the traditional crafts of the tribe and culture (technologies)- see hunter-gatherer skills from Epoch I
H. How can we apply all we have learned of these skills and folkways to our lives in this day and age, to our occupations, to our family life and to the conception and the creation of a final design for our home or local landscape?
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