Your final will be a minimum of 1600 words on a topic of your choosing under the

Your final will be a minimum of 1600 words on a topic of your choosing under the Umbrella of Indigenous Health, Political Ethnoecology And Governance. You will likely narrow down your topic from what you started with. Your outline for your paper/project should contain at a minimum. Please note this is not meant to be the format of your paper, but items contained:
An Introduction, a thesis statement, and or the main points you intend to discuss and background. (Evidence, details about the topic you are interested in and information that you refer to for your analysis. I’ve reduced the amount of peer-reviewed sources. Please choose more credible sources. There should not be wikipedia or a ton of encyclopedia references. Analysis. Bring your insights in and contemplate the implications of different sources. For example if you are discussing the traditional farming relationships to climate change you might want to look into various experiences with that and make some inferences. Like I would assume that folks used to climate extremes and are in an areas with resistance to colonial disruption may figure out how to best work with their more extreme environments.
-Please make reference to what decolonizing or social justice would look like in relation to your topic. It does not have to be holistic, but I would like to see strong connections with at least one citation in relation to this theme..
Your interest it would be helpful to include how you connect to your topic of choice. This is where people often address their bias too
Conclusion
You may choose to recap some of your major points. You may also branch out and mention how learning more influenced your perspective. Additionally, it would be great to hear your perspectives on how things could be different. I like the idea of futurities, although also enjoy discussion about those types of visions for today.
Ethics/antibias your paper/project should include considering how ethics and antibias might show up. I will be looking for a reference to decolonization or social justice in relation to your topic. I will also be looking for references to how your topic might relate to anti-oppression. For instance it is important to consider that sometimes Indigenous knowledge is extracted from communities,
there might be bias that assumes consumer culture as better than traditional relationships,
when things are past oriented, there might be romanticization,
cultures are often dynamic, yet current efforts dismissed
there may be mistrust of researchers and some knowledges are meant to be kept closer to community or shared in a certain way.
some fields only allow in information from certain approaches. With the exclusive nature of having research supported its possible that alot of the information within a field does not include diverse perspectives or methodology to produce knowledge reducing scope, depth, and creating space for group think. There is also data that never is published if findings do not align to what is expected, which may skew understandings within the field.
Grading Criteria. Please read above for the details in addition to what is in the rubric
1) Introduction, background, evidence, analysis, discussion, and conclusion (8 points) The presence of quality sources will be considered here. Not everything needs to be peer review but it shouldn’t be wikipedia either. 4) Ethics, social justice, and bias (5point). Your voice should be present along with some citations for how these elements show up in your research and topic.
5) Situating yourself (2 point) within the topic. Your voice should be present and please share what interests you in the topic. This also connects to ethics and bias.
6) employ writing and communication Conventions (4point) associated with an academic essay or project. Use a standard essay format, although can use formatting and subsection.
Please cite using a style guide and use other writing conventions; such as organization, flow, transition sentences, grammar, and punctuation. You may choose to describe your work in a story telling fashion, which overlaps with the standard essay format, but can be more personable and easy to follow. The learning center is there to support, so please plan accordingly.
below i have attached my outline for the essay, feel free to add anything to it that you see fit.