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  2. Indigenous storytelling in North America - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous cultures in North America engage in storytelling about morality, origin, and education as a form of cultural maintenance, expression, and activism. [1] Falling under the banner of oral tradition, it can take many different forms that serve to teach, remember, and engage Indigenous history and culture. [1]

  3. Child development of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The development of children’s understanding of the world and their community is reflected in the numerous storytelling practices within Indigenous communities. Stories are often employed in order to pass on moral and cultural lessons throughout generations of Indigenous peoples, and are rarely used as a unidirectional transference of knowledge.

  4. Native American studies - Wikipedia

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    Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]

  5. Traditional knowledge - Wikipedia

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    The knowledge of indigenous and local communities is often embedded in a cosmology, and any distinction between "intangible" knowledge and physical things can become blurred. Indigenous peoples often say that indigenous knowledge is holistic, and cannot be meaningfully separated from the lands and resources available to them.

  6. Indigenous science - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous knowledge and experiences are often passed down orally from generation to generation. [17] [18] Indigenous knowledge has an empirical basis and has traditionally been used to predict and understand the world. [19] [20] [21] Such knowledge has informed studies of human management of natural processes. [1] [22]

  7. Indigenous education - Wikipedia

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    There is a continued lack of teaching of indigenous knowledge, perspective, and history. As mentioned above, there has been a modern-day global shift towards recognizing the importance of Indigenous education. One reason for this current awareness is the rapid spread of Western educational models throughout the world.

  8. Indigenous librarianship - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous peoples hold unique languages and ways of knowing, often including their relationship to and stewardship of their lands. According to the United Nations (UN), there are "more than 476 million Indigenous peoples living in all regions of the world" and the UN emphasizes the importance of understanding the term Indigenous to be based on "self-identification as Indigenous peoples" at ...

  9. 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).