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  2. Indigenous science - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous science is related to the term "traditional ecological knowledge" or "TEK" which is specific category of Indigenous science that applies to the natural world, usually focused on agriculture, sustainability and wildlife. [27] The study of ecology focuses on the relationships and patterns between organisms in their environment. [28]

  3. List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of ...

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    Peyote – indigenous people realized the antibiotic property of peyote and used the extract to treat fevers and enhance the energy in their bodies and treatment as an anesthetic. Pineapple – indigenous people residing in what is now Brazil and the Paraná River valley of Paraguay were the first to cultivate the pineapple. From there ...

  4. Traditional ecological knowledge - Wikipedia

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    For example, to immediately deal with these conditions, the indigenous people adjust when they harvest and what they harvest and also adjust their resource use. Climate change can change the accuracy of the information of TEK. The indigenous people have relied on indicators in nature to plan activities and even for short- term weather predictions.

  5. Ethnoscience - Wikipedia

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    Ethnoscience has not always focused on ideas distinct from those of "cognitive anthropology", "component analysis", or "the New Ethnography"; it is a specialization of indigenous knowledge-systems, such as ethno-botany, ethno-zoology, ethno-medicine, etc. (Atran, 1991: 595).

  6. Indigenous astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous astronomy is the name given to the use and study of astronomical subjects and their movements by indigenous groups. This field encompasses culture, traditional knowledge, and astronomy. This field encompasses culture, traditional knowledge, and astronomy.

  7. NMSU’s Farmington science center supports promotion of ...

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    Utah State University researcher Reagan Wytsalucy has dedicated her entire career to restoring traditional crops on Indigenous lands – like Native American peaches.

  8. Traditional knowledge - Wikipedia

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    How, if at all, to include indigenous knowledge in education and in relation to science has been controversial. It has been argued that indigenous knowledge can be complementary to science and includes empirical information, even encoded in myths, and that it holds equal educational value to science like the arts and humanities. [3]

  9. List of Filipino inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    There are urban legends in the Philippines purporting supposed inventions by Filipinos. These assertions are presented as facts in some academic textbooks in history and science used by Filipino students, as well as social media, to promote Filipino exceptionalism. [61] Fluorescent lamp, said to be invented by a certain Agapito Flores.