Indigenous Science Preserved

Module 2’s focus on indigenous knowledge made me think about how indigenous knowledge and science differs from the conventional western approach that I had grown up learning here in North America. This website offers an interesting mix of resources, as it is a library collection of online text, video, audio, and image files of Indigenous science. In “Indigenous science,” it includes both knowledge about the “natural world and ways of teaching and learning about it.” The Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources is produced by Indigenous persons or organizations, and approved for inclusion in the library collection by an elder or other Indigenous person with the expertise to assess the resource. That’s why I believe that this collection is an extremely important one as it helps dispel the cultural untruths about the “primitive” approach to science that is often reported in cultural stereotypes about Aboriginal peoples.

http://www.dlisr.org/search.html