LESSON THREE • ACTIVITY ONE
This Land is My Land,
his Land is Your Land
LESSON THREE • ACTIVITY ONE
This Land is My Land,
his Land is Your Land
OBJECTIVE: Learn about ways Maroon communities were sites of resistance and how the legacy of that resistance is being preserved today.
PARTICIPANTS WILL: read the article, watch the video and discuss the ways in which the legacy of Maroon communities lives on today.
PROCEDURE
- 1. READ Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom.
- 2. Watch the first 20 minutes of this interview from Vice News about the Jamaican Maroon communities fighting to preserve their towns from bauxite mining. The residents here have been fighting invaders since the 1700s.
Discussion Questions:
- 1. Why would Dan Sayer describe the archaeological work he does as an act of resistance?
- 2. How does the mining of Cockpit Country represent a modern day threat to the members of the community?
- 3. Whose responsibility is it to preserve historical sites and ancestral land?