Finding Indigenous Connection to Restore the Future
I can't help it, the work of Joe Brewer and The Design School for Regenerating the Earth lifts and opens my heart into a SANE state like no other information I've ever found.
This conversation between Joe and Don Longboat of the Mohawk Nation, a Professor at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, goes so deep, so gently, that I have to bring it up to share on this little blog.
"We need the best of Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge with the best of Western science. Can we find a Third Way forward? As we continue the process of truth and reconciliation, we must recognize that we need to take a step beyond to (re)discover a different way of being on this planet."
Please watch and listen. There are choices in life we all have to make, and a lot of those choices begin in gratitude for all of life. That gratitude leads to feeling and taking responsibility for sustaining our relationships with all beings and systems of the Earth.
Dr. Dan Longboat is an Associate Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies at Trent University, and Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, the first of its kind in North America to blend Indigenous knowledge and Western science. In a dynamic and multilayered conversation with global regeneration leader Joe Brewer, he explores a Third Way forward.
You can also register to watch videos of the 7-Generation Bioregional Summit which took place this winter in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion in Ontario, Canada, where this conversation took place.
ADDED: Article from Science.org about the timeliness and necessity of opening up practice of indigenous science (January 18, 2024). Bravo!
There is a global groundswell of Indigenous-led research on stewardship of lands and waters, providing opportunities for Indigenous and Western knowledges to flourish together. A major step in this direction was announced last September by the US National Science Foundation, in its establishment of the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS). Led by a team of 54 predominantly Indigenous scholars and headquartered at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, CBIKS aims to focus on complex issues at the nexus of nature and culture. The research teams, which span the globe, will address climate disruption, food insecurity, and cultural survival through learning from Indigenous community-based approaches.
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