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Becoming Indigenous: A Story Of The Moklen People, Olivia Zimmerman Jun 2018

Becoming Indigenous: A Story Of The Moklen People, Olivia Zimmerman

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

The context and ways in which the Moklen people of Southwest Thailand are accessing their indigenous identify.


Root.Ed: A Story That Reconnects, Liz Blackman Jun 2017

Root.Ed: A Story That Reconnects, Liz Blackman

Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays

This paper seeks to examine grief and despair as entry points toward compassion and environmental renewal. When sharing our own stories of grief and healing we access our deep roots as communities of interconnected Beings and find our way to Active Hope. Ecological grief plays a critical role in the environmental destruction of our time and by interrogating our own death denial and despair paradigms through communal story- sharing we can move away from apathy and toward more impactful environmental education. Below I share my own Root.ED journey from interconnection through grief to healing and compassionate renewal and how the …