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Indigenous science may offer a different perspective from what is traditionally thought of as "science". [39] In particular, Indigenous science is tied to territory, cultural practices, and experiences/teachings in explicit ways that are often absent in normal scientific discourse. [40] Place based Indigenous science also is common outside of ...
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 ...
In Native Science, Cajete describes how Indigenous peoples of the Americas [2] have "a lived and creative relationship with the natural world" and a heightened "awareness of the subtle qualities of a place." [4] The book notes how the scientific community has benefited from the traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples. [2]
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. Clear Light Books, 2001. ISBN 1-57416-041-9. [3] Cajete, Gregory. A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living. Clear Light Books, 1999. ISBN 1-57416-028-1. Cajete, Gregory. Igniting the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Model. Kivaki Press, 1999. ISBN 1-882308-66-2. Cajete, Gregory.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.
Batwa participants in a Forest Peoples Programme-sponsored project contributing their knowledge to a relief map of a forested area.. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is a cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one ...
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).
In 1995, Maryboy founded the Indigenous Education Institute, a nonprofit organization working to preserve traditional Indigenous knowledge and apply it to areas such as astronomy and other science disciplines. [13] She is a core member of the Native American Academy, an organization promoting the value of Native knowledge. [14]