Website: http://www.ser.org/iprn/tek.asp This is a wonderful website pertaining to traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The site looks at the reasons behind the new attention being paid to traditional knowledge, and western cultures hopes to utilize this knowledge as a way to repair the damage we have done to our environment. There are links to information about […]
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Website: http://www.ecoknow.ca/index.html This is the website for a research group, based out of UBC, that focuses on ecological knowledge research done in collaboration with Indigenous communities along the north coast of BC. Participants in the research group include students and professors from the Anthropology department at UBC and members of the Gitxaala Nation. This group […]
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Website: http://www.nafaforestry.org/forest_home/knowledge.html This is a very interesting website, designed to help increase Aboriginal consultation and understanding within the Forestry sector. The site covers a large range of information including: the national forest strategy, aboriginal law, capacity building, institutions traditional knowledge, business, youth, metis forestry, trapping and hunting, etc. For me, the most interesting (and pertinent […]
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Website: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/april06.htm This is a website dedicated to distributing information about events pertaining to Indigenous science and it’s integration into Western education. This particular link will take you to the April, 2006 edition of the bulletin, where a research proposal by two students of the University of Victoria, BC is highlighted. This proposal, entitled “The […]
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Website: http://www.scidev.net/en/policy-briefs/raising-awareness-of-indigenous-knowledge-in-scien.html This web page contains a paper regarding possible ways to implement Indigenous knowledge in Western science and technology classes. Written in 2002, it is interesting to note the suggestions given by the author that have not yet been adequately addressed, six years later. This paper stresses the need for a formal agreement between […]
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