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Emerging Water Issues in Indigenous Communities: Northern Ontario (Provincial Focus)

At this point you have been given a basic debrief of the situation posed to residents of Attawapiskat and their emerging water issues. Many people are of the belief that the socio economic problems existing on this reserve cannot be fixed without fixing infrastructural issues in their community.

You are to gather as much information needed in order to devise a sustainable solution for their infrastructure issues. This will be posed to the Canadian government and the Indigenous governing band council. This solution must take into consideration all infrastructure issues including social problems, formation of an economy and a working sustainable society (You are essentially building a community from scratch in the Attawapiskat location with an Indigenous population of 1000 people).

Be sure to think and incorporate all of the questions/angles that will be posed to you in order to defend your sustainable solution. You must be able to be critical of your own potential solution for loopholes and address how you may close those gaps to make the solution work.

You must provide a detailed, step by step plan (written + presentation component) that is possible, plausible and realistic and can be put into motion as a TRUE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION within the next few years.

All Sources must be cited in MLA format + submitted with your final assignment

Hint: A good starting point is to research success stories of other Indigenous communities that have already addressed this issue and have been thriving.

Things to consider:

1) Land use, land claims, location + topography

2) Social (welfare) and Cultural practices3) Environmental Damage4) Political Representatives/Avenues5) Employment opportunities6) Climate7) People or groups affected


Step 1: IMPACTS OF WATER ISSUES ON ABORIGINAL RESERVES CASE STUDY: Water Issues in Attawapiskat – Negative Impacts

Political Impacts Economic Impacts Social and Cultural Impacts Environmental Impacts


Step 1b: INFRASTRUCTURAL ISSUES ON INDIGENOUS RESERVES

Political Impacts Economic Impacts Social and Cultural Impacts Environmental Impacts


Step 2: Sections/Criteria to Consider

Land use, land claims, location + topography

● What sections of land will you be using for which part of your project?● What will you build and where?

Social (welfare) and Cultural practices

● What aspects should you consider?● What are the plans for increasing quality of life? Educational opportunities and maintaining cultural practices?

Environmental Damage

● What environmental problems might arise?

Political Representatives/ Avenues

● What levels of government are going to be addressed with this problem?● What issues will arise?


Employment opportunities

● What types of jobs are you going to need in order to have a sustainable society?

Climate ● How are weather issues going affect or alter building/ living conditions?● What do you need to consider?

People or groups affected

● How will this affect the Indigenous community of Attawapiskat? How will this affect the people in Ontario?


RUBRIC

CATEGORY LEVEL 4 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 1 R

THINKING & INQUIRY

● Political● Economical● Social/ Culture● Environmental

Student has..-incorporated superior ideas from the 7 “items to consider” with superior analysis + clarity-examined and critiqued loopholes in solution-Solution provided has been proven/tested for sustainability-Solution is realistic and plausible-addressed physical and human geography characteristics with a high degree of effectiveness-3p’s Infrastructure chart contains 30 positive impacts

Considerable Somewhat Vague INCOMPLETE-Does not meet expectation

COMMUNICATION Presentation skills include the following:-eye contact with entire audience-loud, clear voice-confident and knowledgeable on the subject-students speaks with confidence and certainty in what is being shared/said-ability to answer questions at the end of the presentation and defend their positions with facts and evidence

Presentation format:-is interesting and creative-covers all areas of the sustainable society-engages audience and urges audience feedback and participation



APPLICATION

● Negative Impacts

● Questions to consider

● Presentation

Student has…- completed written package with in depth analysis that is applied to overall sustainable solution-Student has used knowledge gained (auxiliary) to supply a plausible and attainable solution-clearly conducted in depth research by incorporating multiple angles/perspectives-made higher order critical thinking connections, addressed loopholes with solutions and can defend critiques and questions from their peers and judging panel-MLA citations are complete-Attawapiskat community layout contains all infrastructural components(blueprint, 3D drawings or virtual map)


BUILDING MY SUSTAINABLE ATTAWAPISKAT

CHECKLIST Step 1/1b – T Charts

o Both charts are complete with 5 connections to each category

Step 2 – Things to Consider Chart o ALL questions are complete with critical thinking skills and view through

several lenses

Step 3 – 3P’s Venn Diagram complete with 30 pieces of positive impacts


o Each 3P’s category has 10 pieces of evidence to support the sustainability of the infrastructure

Step 4 – My Attawapiskat Layouto Layout of “My Attawapiskat” is complete through the use of a 3D drawing,

Blueprint or Virtual Touro Layout shows ALL aspects and components of Attawapiskat

Step 5 – Video or Live Presentationo Video it filmed and edited for proper sound/video quality and posted for

easy access on presentation dayo Live Presentation is rehearsed and ready to present to the class

Step 6 – MLA Citation Pageo Citation page is typed, printed and attached to the back of your written

package

MY SUSTAINABILITY MODEL


SUSTAINABILITY

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