Topic recap sheet n°2 : Native Americans, DAPL and climate change Content/ Documents : Pictures : Standing Rock Sioux camp near building site Text: Time to move the Standing Rock Pipeline (New York Times editorial) Translation : Abominable Science Videos: Standoff at protest camp (CBS) 2 excerpts from “before the flood”: president Obama + Nasa scientist Civilization / culture : Thanksgiving (One word : native Americans react to …)
Picture(s) (description & meaning)
DakIOoOoOta protest camp
Description :
Night-sky, sunset, a little bit dark.
Background: Rural area, A big camp with cars, tepees … May be a Native-American camp. Looks temporary, not really organized and might be illegal.
Foreground: Young girl looking at the camp, alone, looks to be cold. A man seems to be walking in her direction.
Meaning :
Native-Americans joined here in order to protest against the construction of a Pipeline in Dakota. The girl looks afraid and fed up to fight every day to preserve the Indian land, life style and culture => An eternal fight for the protection of environment and traditional way of life
Indian prOoOoOtesters morocco
Description :
Faces of three Native-Americans: one man, two women, wearing
Meaning :
Native Americans joined in traditional clothes in order to make their voice heard in their
typical clothes; look very serious and determined.
fight to preserve their lands and culture during the COP22 in Morocco.
Their faces show determination to resist to capitalism. #jlm2017
Keystone pipeline prOoOoOtest
Description :
Meaning :
Native-Americans and cow-boys, riding horses in the front of the Capitol, wearing traditional clothes, holding flags, placards Demonstration in an usual place with unusual people.
Native Americans crossed the country and joined in the usual place of demonstrations
Objective: To put pressure on the government and show the massive opposition to the pipeline.
Vocabulary English To pay a tribute A phenomenon/ several phenomena
Sauropod fossils To behold Touristic, economic Thus The lack To be happy with
French
English In spite of / Despite A testimony
French
Des fossiles de sauropodes Contempler Touristique, économique
To aim at
Viser à
blurry A failure
flou Un échec
Ainsi Le manque Être content de
The belief
La croyance Comparer avec En comparaison avec
Le feu vert Retournement de situation Rancœur Piller Nettoyer notre esprit
rendre hommage Un/des phénomènes
A standoff To file suit, to sue To threaten, to jeopardize To loom A statement
Une impasse Attaquer en justice Menacer
To compare to/with Compared to To push back Opponent A bully
Etre imminent Une déclaration
The go ahead A plot twist
Overall idea To resort Forgiveness
Idée générale Avoir recours Pardon
Resentment Plundered To cleanse our mind
Malgré Un témoignage
Finalement renoncer Opposant Harceleur
Involved IN To prevail
Impliqué dans Prévaloir
Braquer une banque To rob a bank A bitter confrontation Une confrontation amère Réserves d’eau
Scarce To go and see
Affrontements malheureux Rare Aller voir
To have faith in
Avoir foi en
Optimistic Army corps of engineers
Optimiste Les ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées (MinesPonts) Une tribu (Sur un espace probabilisable) Les Amérindiens
pessimistic Crude oil
Refroidir (l’atmosphère) pessimiste Le pétrole brut
A leak
Une fuite
A spill
Une marée
Law-enforcement
Les autorités
Burial grounds Water supplies
Un campement protestataire Les sites funéraires Les ressources en eau
Riot gear A standoff
Drinking water Water faucets
L’eau potable Les robinets
Grim clashes Bitter confrontation
Shifted To withhold
Redirigé Wrapped in injustice Suspendre/retirer/refuser A wretched history
Une tenue anti-émeute Un affrontement/une impasse Affrontements violents Une confrontation amère Teinté d’injustice Une histoire sombre, désolante Se terminer dans la douleur
Grim clashes
A Tribe Native Americans / First nations A protest camp
Atteindre son objectif To achieve one’s (#Concours) aim To monitor closely Suivre l’affaire de près
Water supplY /ai/ Indisputable To repair / To fix(+fam.) To cool off
To end in grief
Indiscutable Réparer
A rubber stamp
La caution morale
Un risque environemental
Charges
Les ( chefs d’)accusation(s)
A shrine Plundered
Un sanctuaire Pillé, saccagé
To be carved
Des prix qui s’éffondrent Pic de production de pétrole Etre gravé, sculpté
A hint
brazen Barrel of crude oil A civilian
éhonté Barril de pétrole Un civil
To litigate Grievance To undergo (change)
Paris Agreement President-elect
Les accords de Paris Président-élu
Outsourcing A lawsuit
Reprisal The poles
Représaille Les poles
Frankly To melt
Une indication, une astuce Poursuivre en justice Grief, sujet de plainte Subir des transformations La délocalisation Procès, action en justice Franchement Fondre
Environmental hazard Plummeting prices oil gluts
Realistic Uncertainty
Clair comme de l’eau de roche (≠ clair comme de l’eau de boudin (#H.Devie)) Raisonnable, réaliste Incertitude
A glacier
Un glacier
Crystal-clear
Helpless
Fossil fuels A fight of flight situation To take to the streets
Sans defense, impuissant (un peu comme nous quoi…#Concours) Energies fossiles Une situation de lute ou de fuite Descendre dans la rue
Recent events, historical & cultural references mentioned in the documents, questions raised by the topic, debates: -cultural phenomena (ex: monsters like the Yeti): Those monsters do exist only because some people want to believe -A struggle over the Dakota access pipeline: Nov 4: Obama will “find a way to accommodate the sacred lands of the Sioux” / Nov 14: The Army Corps of Engineers announce other analysis and discussion with the tribe / Nov 16: demonstrations around the world / Nov 22: violent clashes at the protest camp - Thanksgiving : national holiday celebrated in Canada and US. Origin : to thank Natives ☻ for their hospitality. Today, it reminds some Americans of the massacre of the Natives. Craig Johnson was inspired by this issue, and wrote a short story entitled Thankstaking -(Before the flood): Thanks to science, more and more people are now convinced that climate change is a reality, however if the ice caps melt many people will have to move, which will turn into a national security issue. These are the reasons why the next administration will have to fight climate change, even if it claims “climate change is a hoax…” -Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) : Construction of a Pipeline ($3.7 bilion, carry crude oil) : in North Dakota, near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation (=Indian sacred land),Missouri river (=source of drinking water) demonstrations, protest camps Confrontation : protester//Law enforcement Obama cares .
-Nasa Scientist Piers Sellers : Realized from space how thin & fragile atmosphere is / Failure
of scientific community : have not raised enough awareness of population yet / Climate change is not a fatality BUT we need to fight back now = URGENT We need a change in mentalities, habits and lifestyles
Key expressions (grammar, syntax, translation difficulties) - - They do exist -It has never taken place -“A New York park” (and NOT “a New Yorker park”) – “A long-necked creature” (and NOT “a long neck creature”) -So ≠ Thus: Ainsi (So=> Proposition, Thus=> résumé) -It is supposed to live in…/ It supposedly lives in… -To forge = to ivent/create - They have been numerous sightings -Install a sculpture/ set up camp/settle an argument/ settle somewhere - An environmentalist (activist) ≠ An ecologist (scientist) - To fight (and NOT struggle) climate change - The ice caps : les poles ≠ The ice pack : la banquise -To come out of the fog : sortir du brouillard - “Is it worth it ?” : Cela en vaut-il la peine ? -“ They would hardly be the first “ : Ils seraient loin d’être les premiers -“ Out of sight, out of mind “ : loin des yeux, loin du coeur -“Everyone is responsible for one’s act” : Chacun est responsable de ses actes
Document prepared with GREAT care by : Palaude axel Demay mathis Roze quentin Pohier manon Cattini yann Martin valentin Toulemonde paul-alexis
Nb : congratulations for this extensive work !!!
