Fwd: FW: A Solution to the Oil Spill. 2 Farmers would think of this this is aamzing!!:):)

[Mary Hermes]

I had dinner last night with some indignenous (Cree, Ojibwe, Dine) water engineers who think leaving it alone
and letting our Mom and the fungus do their thing is  a good idea.

others think the military should take over in order to stop leakage, as they do have the technology and skills to do this

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Mary Hermes, PhD
Associate Professor of Education
Eni-gikendaasoyang:  Center for Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization
University of Minnesota Duluth
715-462-4230



On Jun 2, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:

> Using hay/straw seems like a great idea and should be considered.
> Unfortunately
> Technology keeps drifting into fields of corporate complexity
> where simple homegrown solutions can become overlooked
> or seem "unprofitable".
> 
> Indigenous technologies are closer to the original meaning of the word:
> 
> technology : from Greek tekhnologia 
> from:  
> tekhnē   ‘art, craft’   -logy denoting a subject of study or interest 
> 
> the technologist as a craftsperson? would've thunk?
> maybe if we took on THIS attitude to solving problems as a "craft" or as an "art"
> we might actually stress emphasis on create sustainable solutions
> which could certainly apply to language/culture as well.
> 
> Richard Zane Smith
> Wyandotte Oklahoma
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> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I'm trying to Heather...
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> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
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> On 01/06/2010 4:12 PM, Heather Souter wrote:
>> Wahwaa!!! Wow!!!  LET'S MAKE THIS VIRAL!!!!
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>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Really...you just gots to see this one.... Something stil to be said about farmers I guess....wonder what all those high tech engineers think about this, eh...
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