How did the movie avatar relate to the first nations?

Answer 1

Avatar triggered a wide ranging debate about the exploitation of the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples. Director James Cameron described his movie as "a broader metaphor (of) how we treat the natural world."

Destructive dams are one way in which the natural world is mistreated. By the end of the 20th century, about 50,000 large dams had choked more than half of the earth's major rivers. This massive engineering program has wiped out many plant and animal species and made freshwater the ecosystem most affected by species extinction. It has submerged wetlands, forests and farmlands with reservoirs that, taken together, would cover the entire state of California. Dams have also displaced an estimated 60-80 million people.

Just as the Na'vi people on Avatar's Pandora are connected to all living creatures, many indigenous peoples are intimately connected to their lands, rivers and forests. Displacing them from their ancestral lands destroys their culture, history and sense of identity.

Dams continue to threaten indigenous lands and peoples. Here are some examples of ongoing projects and conflicts:

• The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon would flood about 500 square kilometers of land belonging to the Kayapó Indians and other indigenous peoples. Belo Monte is just one of more than 100 dams planned in the Amazon region.
• If built, the Gibe 3 Dam in Ethiopia will affect about 500,000 indigenous farmers, herders and fishermen in the Lower Omo Valley and around Lake Turkana in neighboring Kenya. If the annual floods of the Omo River are stopped, the crops, cattle and fish on which the communities depend will be severely affected.
• The Bakun Dam will soon flood 700 square kilometers of rain forest in Sarawak (Malaysia). It will devastate the ancestral lands of the Kayan/Kenyah and Penan peoples.
• Dam projects threaten many fragile ecosystems and indigenous peoples in the Himalayas. The Idu Mishmi, a community of 11,000 in Northeast India, will soon be overrun when 6,000 construction workers move into their remote valley to build the Dibang Dam.
• More than 60 dam projects have been proposed and are under construction in Burma, particularly in the territories of indigenous peoples such as the Shan and Karenni. Human rights organizations have documented many human rights abuses such as forced labor, rape, and extrajudicial killings in connection with these projects.

Answer 2

Because the white people are try to assimilate both native people and the N'avi. The N'avi are the natives of pandora because they were there first like how the natives were first in Canada . The natives in Canada had to leave when the gold rush hit so they were moved. Even now the First Nations people of Canada are forced to move. Like in Fortmacmurry the First Nations are getting pushed out of there homes due to drilling for oil to improve our economy. Just like how the white men are on pandora and digging under " home tree" for a really expenses rock. In the movie America's economy was failing so that was why they needed the rock unabtanium i think is what it's called. So that's all that I can infer right now. TOODLES! <3