Opening Day

Our first day of the May Term was spent outdoors, hiking along the Elkhart River for several miles, learning about a plant called the Serviceberry with the director of Environmental Resilience in the city of Goshen, and wondering aloud what is meant to the words “indigenous” and “economies”.

The course has several learning objectives, and the first one is this:

Given three weeks of visits, presentations, guided conversations and challenging outdoor experiences, students will develop an understanding of how people living in an indigenous context turn the resources they have — natural, physical, human, social, financial, spiritual and cultural — into the goods and services they need in order to maintain and improve their lives and promote resilience in their communities.

Over the next three weeks we’ll give the students themselves an opportunity to describe their experiences, one at a time…

Stay tuned!