The title of this painting is “Killer Whale Has a Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximolgoical Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans”.
Ecological studies within the sciences are done so in a very pragmatic and content based manner. This painting reminded me of the ease in which Aboriginal oral tradition can be incorporated in to the current curriculum, in regards to the ecology units.
Narratives are used in English to paint perspectives that otherwise can be hard to present to students; they introduce and bias in an organic manner. Stories hold a strong power to create connections with the content. Similarly, First People’s stories and tales that are embedded within the environmental sciences can be used as vessels to emphasize the role that land plays within Indigenous beliefs, and use it to bridge the gap between Aboriginal and Science pedagogy.
