First Nations education research is led and conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in both workforce and advisory roles. AERO's First Nations Education Research team works to understand and advance predictors of educational success for First Nations children and youth.
One of the most significant Aboriginal items in any museum collection’ returned as ancient kelp water carrier is repatriated to Tasmania
One of the most important Aboriginal items in any museum collection returned ancient kelp water carrier is being repatriated to Tasmania. You will do many things to change the world, but it would be great to see one of you on the moon," Pamela said.
A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago (Alan N Williams, Mark Constantine IV, Scott Mooney; The Conversation: 17 April 2023)
Researchers used totemic species, donated by Elders to schools, as a means of ensuring care for threatened species. The totem is given to an individual by a parent or elder, usually around the time of their birth.
First Peoples' knowledge of 'mysterious fairy circles' in Australian deserts has upended a long-standing science debate
- The Kimberley raft
- Thuwarri Thaa Aboriginal ochre mine
- Budj Bim eel traps
- Yidaki
- Brewarrina fish traps
This is the result of historical denial of the First Nations of Australia as enduring scientific and technical civilizations. Side view and plan of the kalwa raft, a traditional watercraft from the Bardi community of northwestern Western Australia.
Medical gels made from spinifex grass to provide 'safer' treatments, jobs for Indigenous Australians (Julia André Morse; ABC North West Qld: 8 March 2023) Link
The New South Wales State Government has announced a grant of AU$78.5 million (US$54 million) to Western Sydney University (WSU) under its WestInvest program to help establish an Indigenous Center of Excellence (ICE) at establish the university. WSU's ICE will be established in collaboration with the university's Elders Advisory Committee and key Indigenous stakeholders, with the university's planning department to launch a national design.
Sea urchin harvest trial brings scientists, traditional owners and fishers together to help save kelp forests (ABC South East NSW / By Vanessa Milton and Simon Lauder: 21 Feb 2023) Link
First Nations people often take on the 'cultural load' in their workplaces—employers need to ease this burden
Banksia: Zena Cumpston Talks to Vanessa Morris About the Emu Sky Exhibition
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NEWS AND VIEWS – THE WORLD
Cook Islands' first science expo
Climate Change Cook Islands celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2023, recognizing Indigenous women who are key team members, key partners and contributors to the organization over the past few years. The role of such Indigenous knowledge in Aotearoa is the subject of this 8th episode of The Way Forward, our Newsroom video series on the first glimpses of transformative change in our responses to the climate crisis.
Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines
UNESCO) in collaboration with the Nepal Forum of Science Journalists (NFSJ) organized its first scientific dialogue on "Ethno-Botany and Indigenous Knowledge" on Friday. University Professor Emeritus Ram Prasad Chaudhary spoke during the session, where he emphasized the close connection between ethnobotany and indigenous knowledge systems.
Science Commission Hosts Consultation Workshop on Draft National Indigenous Knowledge Systems Policy
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 41 Why Indigenous Knowledge Has a Place in School Science Curriculum. To put the article into perspective, the nature of Nigeria's indigenous knowledge will be applied.
Biologists are part of a bee inventory program and women from the reserve are. working to compare each other's findings on bee species in the indigenous territory, where researchers say bees are more protected than other regions of Colombia. Some of the folktales and traditional knowledge are even surprising to the women documenting it; They say the details and scientific information will be shared with local communities and schools to raise awareness of the importance of bee protection. One of the Yucuna indigenous women holds a labeled drawing of a native bee during a workshop.
We learn about the environment and from the environment and this led us to a deep understanding of the natural world, the cosmos and the use of technologies.
An Indigenous perspective on climate change: Shoshone Nation leader shares insights at Colorado Mountain College
Regis Mohawk Tribe Environment Division, Clarkson is creating a truly unique connection for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students alike to learn about Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge of the Great Lakes-St. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 48 Simon Named Patron of Foundation Supporting Indigenous Students in STEM. Mary Simon has been named a patron of an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of Indigenous college students in pure and applied science, engineering, and math programs.
The Kirkness Education Foundation announced Tuesday that Simon, the first indigenous person to serve as the King's representative in Canada, had been named a patron because of her history of service and support of Canada's indigenous peoples.
Academics Discuss Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Adaptation at Mahindra Humanities Center
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 50 J'Shon Lee, an Indigenous educator from Albuquerque, explains why she teaches. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 51 United States to restore more bison to tribal areas using 'Indigenous Knowledge'. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 52 Knowledge Keepers bring a wealth of experience to the College of Nursing.
Indigenous Science Network Newsletter - June 2023 56 Black scientists are less likely to receive more research grants.
Strengthening STEM Teaching in Native American Serving Schools through Long-Term, Culturally Responsive Professional Development Link
Black and female scientists are less likely than white men to have more than two research grants, a difference that affects career paths and innovation. A growing number of researchers hold more than two grants at once from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but women and black researchers are less likely than white men to be among them, a new Yale study has found. Black women were 71% less likely to achieve super PI status than white men in the years since 2015.
Bulletin of the Indigenous Science Network - June 2023 57 Native American women struggle to gain a foothold in STEM subjects.
Native islander uses ancestral wisdom to help return Puerto Rico to its indigenous roots
Sealaska Heritage Institute has a new building dedicated to Indigenous approaches to teaching science (Yvonne Krumrey, KTOO News: 22 Feb 2023) Link
Melissa Baese-Berk and Gabriela Pérez Báez developed the program to offer opportunities to engage in linguistic research for students who have either limited or no access or opportunity to. By teaching broadly applicable research skills and using linguistics as a lens, the program opens the door for students to engage in research across STEM fields. ISN members are encouraged to submit topics that explore any aspect of Indigenous science, teaching or education.
If you are doing something valuable in Indigenous science, teaching or education, please consider telling your story here.
New land-based program combines Western science and Indigenous culture
A group of Indigenous students are split into two classes at the University of Calgary where one group learns how to code and the other builds robots out of Lego kits.
Drum dancing and science: Tuktoyaktuk summer camp pairs STEM with traditional skills
As Sydney Kuppenbender sits down to tell her story, she begins to introduce herself in Michif, the traditional language of the Métis. For the graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), it is an important part of proudly reaffirming Métis heritage and language, reclaiming its connection to the homeland of the Métis, and retracing the family history that traces back to relatives such as the late great Gabriel Dumont, one of the most prominent leaders of the Northwest Resistance of 1885. People like my grandfather who was taught to feel ashamed despite the fact that my over , over, over, over, over, great, great uncle was Gabriel Dumont.
However, math is one of the least diverse STEM disciplines from science, technology, engineering, and math.
Finland adopts decree on Sámi Climate Council to bring indigenous knowledge into climate policy processes (Finland; Helsinki Times: 10 March 2023) Link
INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN SCIENCE – DECOLONISE, COLLABORATE, CELEBRATE
Science classes should be taught that Māori 'Ways of Knowing' (Mātauranga Māori) have equal standing with 'Western' science. Those of us who don't have a career to lose must speak up for those who do. New Zealand children will be taught the true wonder of DNA while simultaneously bewildered by the doctrine that all life pulsates from a life force given by Mother Earth and Father Heaven.
Indigenous Science Network Newsletter - June 2023 71 Mātauranga Māori is not a threat to science, it is complementary.
UW professor sues school over indigenous land acknowledgment
This evolution will go nowhere without embodying the principles and values of Te Tiriti. Indigenous traditional knowledge not only makes room for and acknowledges human relationships with land, but also respects the innate intelligence of the natural world. The author has an anonymous name WEKA, so we cannot vouch for the credibility of the ideas presented.
It's as if faith is seen as a dirty word, which is part of the problem with this debate.
RESOURCES - AUSTRALIA
Three Earth Science textbooks based on Indigenous country and cultures to be published soon (Mark Linkson, Coordinator ISN: 2 May 2023)
However, many department employees feel ill-equipped to deal effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 86. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 87 Tamarra - A story about termites in Gurindji Country. Or that spinifex (which eat termites) is one of the strongest plants in the world.
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 89 The First Inventors - The groundbreaking documentary series that will rewrite Australian history.
RESOURCES – THE WORLD
Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California - High School Curriculum and Teacher’s Resource Guide
Above images and text on Aki Kikinomakaywin supplied for publication by Lydia Johnson via email 1 June 2023. 34;Mapping dreams/dreaming maps: bridging Indigenous and Western geographical knowledge.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and. 34; Decolonizing geographies of power: Indigenous digital countermapping practices on Turtle Island." Newly built colonial studies.
34; Decolonizing That Map: Remaking Indigenous Mapping." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.
Embracing Indigenous Knowledge in Science and Medical Teaching (Cultural Studies of Science Education #10) (Hardcover)
PAPERS
Developing an Indigenous Science Curriculum for Kindergarten in Philippines
Despite the hydrological imperative and the engineering capacity for change, concrete stormwater infrastructure remains stubbornly stubborn in the urban water environment. After a brief critique of reactive stormwater management frameworks for managing this syndrome, this article articulates four common values of Indigenous science that may well contribute to improving stormwater management. This argument is supported by an example of Indigenous science modifying the form and function of an existing concrete stormwater channel reach in Canberra, Australia.
Although these interventions will primarily be assessed from a water quality perspective, they contribute to a larger number of environmental processes than purely hydrological ones.
African Indigenous knowledge versus Western science in the Mbeere Mission of Kenya
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - juni 2023 103 Beton i byen. Kate Harrisen; Australian Journal of Water Resources: 2022) Link.
Overlapping Scales of Place Based Indigenous Knowledge and Hydroclimate in Australia
Decolonizing the Map: Indigenous Maps and GIS
Is Validation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Natural Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptations Against Western Science a Wise Idea: Exploring Relevance
Understanding Jhum (shifting cultivation) farmers' place-attachment and ecocentric attitude: Towards a place-based approach for sustainable mountain agriculture in
Is validating traditional ecological knowledge for natural resource management and climate change adaptation against Western science a wise idea: Exploring relevance. Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 106 Bridging knowledge systems in the Peruvian Andes: Plurality, co-creation and transformative socio-ecological solutions to climate change. In the current era of anthropogenic climate change, Quechua farmers in the Peruvian Andes are some of the most affected by, but some of the lowest contributors to, global warming.
This research sought to investigate methods and successes in bridging Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge in Parque de la Papa (Parque) in the Peruvian Andes.
Endorsing Scientific Hybridization of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Across Diverse Sectors (Suvha Lama, Shalini Dhyani, Atya
Dominant Western systems alone have proven insufficient to tackle the climate crisis, and there have been increasing efforts to elevate and center indigenous voices and epistemologies when addressing climate change. Researchers and communities are calling for a bridging of knowledge systems, in which indigenous and Western methods work together to co-create innovative solutions to climate challenges.
INDIGENOUS ASTRONOMY
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 113 Melpal Mari Pathanu (The Spirit Took the Spirit of the Moon) by David Bosun. The ground-based telescope would also be one of the most sensitive ever built, potentially offering infrared observations four times sharper than those of the James Webb Space Telescope. All this on peaks that are the abode of Hawaiian deities – including Wākea, the father of the sky.
Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - June 2023 121 CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / WEBINARS - AUSTRALIA As there are many events taking place now, it is not possible to easily keep track.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / WEBINARS – THE WORLD
Calgary Science centre – TELUS Spark
The My Food Vision is... campaign, led by the Global Indigenous Youth Group, aims to address the challenges faced by Indigenous youth and provide sustainable solutions to food systems, while also. The campaign was launched live at the World Food Forum in October 2022, building towards the next UN Indigenous Youth Forum in 2023. Better production: Indigenous youth bridging intergenerational science, knowledge and techniques that are key for sustainable food generation.
Better Environment: Guided by the teachings of our elders, Native youth learn to follow the laws of nature, where responsibility, servitude and reciprocity are the ways to revive a healthy planet.
EVENTS ALREADY HELD
NWU host first of its kind indigenous astronomy conference
ICIES 2022: 16. International Conference on Indigenous Education Studies
2022 in Auckland, New Zealand
