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CHRISTIE TAYLOR: Three days and 2,000 miles later, I’m in Ottawa, at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. SPEAKER 6: Science comes from the Latin word scio, S-C-I-O, which means to know, knowledge or to learn. So we made the star maps, Ojibwe Giizhing Anung Masinaaigan, right? Give us a call, 844-724-8255. Weren’t you taught as a child what the stories behind them were?

That’s our ancestor. Science writer-producer Christie Taylor went to Canada to get the story, starting on the shore of Lake Winnipeg in rural Manitoba.

Hardison P (2017) Personal discussion, 27 August 2017. She knew which plants to use when one of her patients was ill. Cultures would have different constellations and different stories and different world view based on this massive canopy from horizon to horizon every night that unfolds before our eyes. And now it’s time to widen that definition to let other cultural contributions join our human resources. The Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems project at the University of the Western Cape has done pioneering work to produce teaching materials. More recently, there has been a better recognition of the role of indigenous sciences.

I use they/them pronouns because I’m two-spirited. I think that this is one example. You can also, as I say, tweet us at @scifri. We began to make resources. I thought her views expressed in the linked video were accurate, well balanced and fair. As a teenager, his family scattered by poverty, he was homeless on the streets of Vancouver, until Cree elders invited him and other youth to come back to Manitoba to learn about their culture.

IRA FLATOW: Well, let’s get our listeners in, 844-724-8255. And I still don’t know anything about it. Retrograde motion, so they called it kitom pampaniw.

And it was a sacred thing, and it was a powerful thing. It’s actually a direct fallout from the ways in which colonizing Europeans killed Indigenous people and weakened their ties to their culture. Tracing institutional surprises in the water–energy nexus: Stalled pro... ‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in... “Beam us up, Bgwëthnėnė!” Indigenizing science (fiction), AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. Thank you for helping us continue making science fun for everyone. He calls us tepees and telescopes. Or if they’re urban, they’re living in poorer school districts and there is a dearth of lab facilities, math and science education in those schools. KIM TALLBEAR: I think there’s a couple of reasons. And so I’ve really geared my energies towards not only studying scientists who I think are getting it wrong, but also helping other critical scientists train Indigenous scientists to do things right in some of the ways that Annette is talking about. We have workshops, Native Sky Watchers Teacher and Community Workshops.

So this idea that science is embedded with culture and beliefs that are strong at whatever particular time. But even as the Greeks and the Romans looked to the stars and told stories about them, so did Indigenous people around the world. But I wanted to know if the US has taken any steps, or have they tried to incorporate it in schools? The email address and/or password entered does not match our records, please check and try again. 844-724-8255. Let’s go to the phones. He stated that the Native Americans he worked with knew far more than he did about aquatic ecological systems, even though he had academic training.

How the lost constellations of Indigenous North Americans can connect culture, science, and inspire the next generation of scientists. But because I’m an anthropologist of science, because I study the culture of science and the politics of it, I think a lot about big S Science, which is a science tightly wed to capitalism and colonialism historically, and settler colonialism in the Americas. You can also tweet us at @scifri. Ira speaks with astrophysicist Annette Lee and anthropologist Kim TallBear about the historical role of science and observation in Indigenous communities, and how Western scientific culture can leave out other voices. So that’s one bias that I think it’s shaping their over attention onto migration narratives, versus, say, looking at trade routes and other kinds of travel routes within the Americas that Indigenous people undertook because they were trading with one another and relating with one another. My grandmother believed that a powerful supernatural being, “Ko’komíki’somm,” gave humans certain plants to use as medicine. She also understood, based on their scientific properties, that a plant was indeed a medicine.

It came from culture. So why should only certain segments of the population have those opportunities to even consider doing a higher paying career STEM type job? IRA FLATOW: Mm-hmm.

I’m Ira Flatow. So that’s simply what we’re saying, that there’s engineering, there’s technology, there’s ingenuity. The Large Hadron Collider and the Hidden Universe, Quantum Communications and Information Security, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.”, “Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture”. This is Science Friday. So we can’t afford to leave out so many of our people in science. Available at: Robb P (2015) Q and A: Sheila Watt-Cloutier seeks some cold comfort. Indigenous science provides a wealth of knowledge and a powerful alternative paradigm.”. Cloud State University in Minnesota and director of the Native Sky Watchers Research Program. KIM TALLBEAR: So one of the things that I learned in spending so much time with genome scientists, and particularly those who look at human migrations, they’re really obsessed with the Bering Strait.

We can send spacecraft to Mars.

Give us a call, 844-724-8255. For many Native Americans, like my grandmother, myth and medicine, religion and science, are not viewed as separate, but are interwoven into the fabric of our lives. And then there’s also these kinds of– all of these ethics are what I would call biased value choices, and they are focused on some narratives and not others, some histories and not others, some worldviews and not others. Climate change is yet another rapid assault on our way of life. I don’t want to have to write everything down all the time because it’s the most annoying thing, and I’m not good at writing everything down.

Dr. Kim TallBear, an associate professor and Canada Research chair of Indigenous Peoples, Techno Science, and the Environment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. IRA FLATOW: Thanks for that tip.

How do you point that lens at the culture of science itself? Danowski D, Viveiros de Castro E and Latour B (2014) Position paper: The thousand names of Gaia. CHRISTIE TAYLOR: Because a story about how Mars circles around in the sky like a startled moose is an instrument of astronomical observation, just like the telescope that also sits in this museum.

IRA FLATOW: Yeah, I see that. ANNETTE LEE: Well, I would just look at many examples. And yet–. This includes things in nature– trees, rocks, stars, and people.

In 2008, Canada began a major effort to right the wrongs of colonization, recognize the rights of Indigenous groups, and shape a new relationship of respect and partnership, a process referred to broadly as truth and reconciliation. But how do you recruit that many young scientists?

Annette, when you say that science is inseparable from culture, what are some of the places where culture is affecting how we do science? And everything that I know outside of what was taught in school is pretty much what I looked up on my own, as far as history and science is concerned, for groups of people that you don’t see in your textbook going to school.

For the authoritative record of Science Friday’s programming, please visit the original aired/published recording. But I just want to put it out there that’s a really good book to learn on. The other thing is we, like other people of color, other poor people, are tracked away from STEM fields early on in school.

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I’m Ira Flatow. I found something that was ours. Contact us if you experience any difficulty logging in. Stay with us. Copyright © 2019 Science Friday Initiative. And they have sort of a familiar ring that I’ve heard in other cultures before. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. Right? CHRISTIE TAYLOR: It was a journey that led him ultimately to the stars. As a Native American scholar, I, too, have spent the past year at the intersection of science and religion at Harvard Divinity School, researching “ethnobotany” and “ethnopharmacology” – the scientific study of the medicinal qualities of plants and Native American belief. So is there a way to connect the two? Evans CJ (2015) Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science fiction to make sense of it.

— Maybe you are part of that movement that is interested in Indigenous science. Portsmouth, Hampshire, The Large Hadron Collider and the Hidden Universe Science is the pursuit of the knowledge.Approaches to gathering that knowledge are culturally relative. So I can sort of address both of those issues, but I definitely, my lens is focused on looking at the “cultural biases,” quote unquote, of Western science. So for example, in Western bioethical practices, the bodies of our ancestors– dead bodies, human remains– are not considered human subjects.

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And there are many examples that people are trying, like grassroots efforts. Canada’s definitely taking a leadership role in this effort. Lean Library can solve it.

ANNETTE LEE: Sure.

844-SCI-TALK. How many people alive today could make a means of a transportation– for example, a canoe– out of a birch bark tree completely or make their home out of a buffalo, right? Dr. Kim TallBear, an associate professor and Canada research chair of Indigenous Peoples, Techno Science, and the Environment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. We love this kind of science. You can also tweet us at @scifri, talking about Indigenous science. ANNETTE LEE: There’s so many examples Indigenous cultures have made contributions.

At the same time, though, native Americans and other Indigenous groups are underrepresented in the sciences, making up only 0.2% of the STEM workforce in 2014, despite being 2% of the total population of the United States. Why can’t all cultures have a way of having a relationship with nature, right? This is the old style of learning. Science Friday transcripts are produced on a tight deadline by 3Play Media. Indigenous science incorporates traditional knowledge and Indigenous perspectives, while non-Indigenous scientific approaches are commonly recognized as Western science…

For a long time, the relationship between Native Americans and scientists has been a contentious one.

So I study as an anthropologist genome scientists, who are largely– have been– straight white men. So let’s start with our own communities and remember this star knowledge, Ojibwe and Lakota, Dakota. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives on climate change can situate the present time as already dystopian.