The Cultural Impact of Progress on the Indigenous People

 I have a module (class ) called "Where Did It Come From?" 

This class is about finding out about the "true cost" of the cheap products we buy.

The subjects we do in Where Did It Come From are English(strand - presenting) and Social Studies (strand - economic world).  

For this inquiry, our topic was The Cultural Impact of Progress on the Indigenous People. 

Our teachers came up with a "BIG QUESTION" which is a question that can be broken down into different parts. A "BIG QUESTION" is also a question that you can't google. Our "BIG QUESTION" was: In what ways can I learn about the impact of “progress” on indigenous communities and their environment, in order to better understand how this can be done for mutual benefit.

 Firstly we need to understand the big question. An example of "progress" is the industrial revolution. Many good things happened, like clothing came faster, or you didn't need to wait long to get things you wanted. This made the buying and consumption of goods faster and faster. Because of the high demand of the public, lands were being stripped so they could make bigger factories and produce everything faster. Lots of this land was culturally significant to indigenous people. So there are pros and cons of "progress."

Indigenous people are the original people in that specific area and has been there for generations. 

Mutual benefit means that the action is beneficial for both parties.

So we needed to come up with a way that "progress" could be good for everyone.

Then we broke down our "BIG QUESTION" into 3 subsidiarity questions, or "stepping stone questions". We researched for information to answer these questions to hopefully answer our "BIG QUESTION".

Then we made a presentation on wevideo to show our findings. It's really awesome because our school paid for us to use the premium wevideo. It was so so fun using the wevideo premium because in the previous years in St Mary's didn't have premium and I struggled a little bit sometimes.

Here is my presentation, and I hope you enjoy it!