Google Earth: Surui Cultural Map

Use Google Earth to complete one the following options.

Option #1:

Go to Google Earth and search the Earth Gallery for the "Trading Bows and Arrows to Laptops" tour.  Watch the Surui Tribe Tour.  Write two paragraphs that compare and contrast the experience of the Surui people with the experience of the Native Americans in the United States.

The Dakota People near Fort Snelling, Minnesota (1846).

Option #2:

 Follow this link and download the Surui Cultural Map KML file.
Surui KML File

 Go to Google Earth and open the KML file.  Explore the Surui Cultural Map and take notes on these topics; First Contact, History, Battles, Animals and Plants.

Imagine that you have been hired to help the Surui design an ecotourism project.  Write three paragraphs to include in a travel brochure that tells potential tourists what they will see, do and learn during their visit to the Surui tribe's rainforest home.

How Stuff Works: Carbon Trade Projects

Follow this link and read about Carbon Trade Projects.

How Stuff Works: Carbon Trade Projects

 

1.  How does a carbon trade project work?

2.  Why do some environmentalists question the validity of carbon trade programs?

3.  What do you think are the costs and benefits of the Surui Carbon Project?

Trading Bows & Arrows for Laptops

Watch the video "Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops" and respond to the following questions.  If you can not view the embedded video clip, follow the link below to my home page and scroll down to view the video.

Trading Bows and Arrows

1.  The Surui are using smart phones to monitor the biodiversity of their forest,
     their borders and the carbon produced by their trees.  Why do you think
     that indigenous tribes like the Surui play such a significant role in holding
     back deforestation?

2.  In what ways are maps an expression of culture?

Amazon Tribe Teams Up with Google

How an Amazon Tribe Used Google To Save Their Land
Follow the link above and learn how Brazil's Suuri tribe teamed up with Google to help save their native land in the Amazon rainforest. (Readers Digest, March 2012)

  What do you think Chief Almir meant by these quotes?

    1.   "The time has come to put down the bows and arrows and pick up the laptop."
 
    2.  "Training and education is now our kind of war."