Ancestral Science – Détails, épisodes et analyse

We were grateful to speak with Brendon Many Bears from Siksika, and Darren Rea, who is Cree Métis about how relational science is magical and indescribable, and a deep part of Indigenous culture. They talked about how science describes how we are all connected, through frequencies and mycorrhizal networks to tipi poles, and the depth of science within the “sacred aerodynamics” of tipi mathematics, healing frequencies of drums and sound bowls, and how multiple worldviews of science and life CAN be woven together. 

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It was a warm late spring morning, just before solstice, filming on Treaty 4 Lands within the beautiful Fort Qu'Appelle Valley.

We were grateful to speak with DR. GREGORY CAJETE, Tewa from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico about how Indigenous Science is truly the OG (original) science and his life work of weaving together Indigenous and Western science. He also spoke about the connections between corn, seeds, and the cosmos, biophilia versus biophobia, creation stories and science, being in relationship with plants and animals, sun daggers and the Solstice Project, and quantum thought.

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VIDEO of Episode: here

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LATIFA PELLETIER-AHMED, botanist, herbalist, educator, artist, co-owner of ALCLA Native Plants & Nursery in Treaty 7, taught us about critical thinking in science, plants as teachers and guides, the incredible adaptability and resilience of Native Plants, personalities of seeds, harm of mono-agriculture, honeybees aren’t native, how to decolonize your lawn, and the importance of recognizing and learning about invasive species. 
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-What is Science? Observation in many ways, about the world around us. Think critically about who created/write/passed on that scientific knowledge. who is profiting from that knowledge?

-“Deadly” Water Hemlock. Think critically about the Global Science definition of a “poisonous” plant, open your mind to its gifts, & how it can help you (like how it helped Latifa) https://www.wildernesscollege.com/water-hemlock.html

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_hemlock.html

-ALCLA Native Plants : https ://alclanativeplants.com

- Alberta Native Plant Council: https://anpc.ab.ca

- Plant Watch: Engaging Citizens in Science: https://www.naturewatch.ca/plantwatch/alberta/

- Alberta Invasive Species Council: https://abinvasives.ca/invasive-plants/

-The Plants and the Blackfoot, Alex Johnston (book)

- Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association (KEPA) @KainaiEPA

https://www.naapisgardenkepa.com

-Naapi’s garden: 

https://www.buffalotreaty.com/flux/naapis-garden-a-guide-to-culturally-important-blackfoot-plants 

-Decolonialize your lawn

-Kentucky Bluegrass is invasive. It goes dormant in the summer, turning brown, thereby seemingly needing excess water to keep it “pristine and green.” Roots of K.Bluegrass only grow a few feet, which is far less than 10+ long roots of Native grasses. Deeper roots prevent nutrient erosion during flooding https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550742422000252

-Plant Blue Gramma Grass, Bunch grass (Junegrass, Fescues) are mow tolerant and happy in Southern Alberta. There are Native grasses that thrive in the summer, if you want a natural summer green lawn

-remove non-native species, plant Native species http://www.skinnernativeseeds.ca/index.html https://wrightnursery.ca

-Plant Medicines: Indigenous people have had relationships with plants and their medicines for thousands of years. This knowledge is well respected but comes with protocols. Be careful if passing on this knowledge, do it “in a good way,” with reciprocity, without ego, and for the community and Land.

-remember that plant ancestor and oral teachings have different time scales

-misuse of plant knowledge is real, and has consequences that may not be immediate.

-respect the medicines, don’t overharvest. Why you are harvesting? Are you taking away from people who need these medicines for ceremony and cultural practices? 

Other Resources:

-http://www.buffalorocktipicamp.com, fish rescue program, seasonal flooding, weed pulling.

- iNaturalist (app)

-The Cree Healer and his Medicine Bundle (book)

- North American Ethnobotanical Database: http://naeb.brit.org

-Nitsitapiisinni: Story of the Blackfoot People (book)

- Stories & Spaces https://galileo.org/kainai/

-Reader Rock Garden

https://www.calgary.ca/parks/reader-rock-garden.html

-https://www.saokioheritage.com/

-Ahwahsiin (The Land/Where We Get Our Food) https://nnigovernance.arizona.edu/ahwahsiin-landwhere-we-get-our-food. Abaki Beck

-The Ecological Buffalo, Wes Olson (book)

-Instagram @Homegrownnationalpark

-Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (Doug Tallamy)

-A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design (Banjamin Vogt)

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JESSIE FIDDLER-KISS, a Métis mother, beader, entrepreneur, and educator, taught us about Science as relationships between Land and time, how children are the best teachers of truth, love and how to play, the significance of trickster stories, anti-septic properties of moss, and the connection between swaddling and brain development.

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-The Moss Bag Project

-Articles about Moss Bag Project on CBC⁠, Avenue Calgary, Telus Spark Science Centre here⁠

-the importance of community and Aunties supporting mothers. “the moss bag is the anchor” (Jessie Fiddler-Kiss)

-“children are our greatest teachers,” they are the closest to spirit, learning from the world around them; a method of learning often forgotten by adults. Children teach us about love, play, and new beginnings.

-education systems need to allow for children to learn through play, discovery, failure, and follow their own sparks. 

-“Indigenous Methodology: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts” Margaret Kovach.

-think about the limitations Western academic processes and methods exert on knowledges that are connected with Land and Community? What are we missing if we don’t expand our minds and hearts to knowings and processes/methodologies that are community/land-based?

-Dr. Carmon Gillies, University of Saskatchewan

- A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Metis Teachers’ Counter-Stories. here

- Historical Racial Theories and Ongoing Racialization in Saskatchewan. here

-Trickster stories: Jessie is using “trickster stories” as a storytelling method for her Masters degree.

-the trickster is a common theme in many Native stories and teachings, with the purpose of teacher, making mistakes to teach humans.

-“Coyote the Trickster,”  Syilx Okanagan & Secwepemc stories. "Trickster Tales," “Trickster: Native American Tales” Dembicki, Thompson, Perry (graphic novel, “Trickster,” Eden Robinson (books) (CBC show)

-who/what is a Trickster in your community/culture? How do you learn from these stories/knowledges?

-“Whiteness as Property,” Cheryl Harris

-“Critical Race Theory, an introduction,” Delgado & Stefancic

-Moss Bag Science: moss bag as a tool for survival so caregivers could continue to work with babies.

-Sphagnum moss, used as ‘diaper,’ is anti septic and anti fungal. Its absorbant properties meant there were little (if no) diaper rash. It is antibacterial and has been used on wounds to heal and protect them. It is reusable, when the moss is used up, it went back to the earth.
-“Antibacterial activities of some mosses...” Kang et al., here

- Swaddling mimics how babies are held in the womb and how they are delivered from the spirit world. It supports brain development in babies by continuing to hold them post birth. At this time, baby and mothers/fathers are flooded with hormones to allow for neuroplasticity- a perfect time for family healing, learning, and growth! Skin to skin regulates the baby, sleeping better when near loved ones.

-being in a moss bag, alongside those working, gathering, telling stories, allows for babies to be observant, always learning from their environment.

-Beading & Moss Bags. Each community/family has unique symbols, colours, & patterns of beading. Métis beading: colourful, usually on a black background, florals, plant medicines, and patterns of rotation & scale. Blackfoot beading: often geometrical with triangles, lines, and reflection.

Help re-matriate a Moss Bag Ancestor. Picture here, email here.

-Land-based Indigenous systems Education Program: programs for skills, conversations, and topics you wish you learned in school; eg. listening to aunties and grandparents talk in the kitchen, community land-based programs. fiddlerkissconsulting

-“Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native point of view,” Howard Adams. here

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With MIT scientists fron the Navajo Nation, ALVIN HARVEY described the differences between the two MIT's (yes, there are two!), what it means to be in relationship with space? "space justice," how space is alive, remembering not to do donuts on Mars, how relationships cannot be destroyed but renewed, and how humans are really not as disconnected from space as we may think.

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SHOWNOTES:

- think about what it means to go away from your home? to go to University, college, or away for a job. How does this change you? Can those changes, or scars become armour?

-Think about what happens when you are forced from your home, homeland, community, plant medicines, teachings, and how significant those wounds and scars can be?

- humility and mistakes: how much room do you leave for those? to learn and grow from them?

-part of this is to remember and acknowledge your helpers- these can be people, gifts, medicines, trees, animals, etc. that have helped guide you on your journey. Because this journey is difficult, and we cannot do it alone.

Space Justice: How do we travel to space in a good way?

-"Blending science & tradition: sharing remote sensing technologies with Indigenous communities and their land" (article) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/blending-science-and-tradition-sharing-remote-sensing-technologies-with-indigenous

- The Settler Logics of (outer) Space: https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space

- Dr John Harrington: Indigenous and Anti-Colonial Views of Human Activity in Space. https://www.media.mit.edu/events/panel-discussion-with-dr-john-herrington-indigenous-view-of-human-activity-in-space/

- Indigenous & Anticolonial Views of Human Activity in Space. https://www.media.mit.edu/events/mit-anti-colonialism-seminar-series-panel-discussion-with/

- IRM and the Science of Being Off-Earth. https://irc.skc.edu/colloquium-day-3/

- Thinking about tribal sovereignty, space justice, and peace-making- disconnecting community from space and the consequences of not connecting.

- what is your relationship with Space? Think about your relationship with air, wind, stars, where is the connection between them all?

Navajo Nation and Cremated Remains on Moon: (article) https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/jan/15/navajos-upset-after-ashes-sent-to-moon-nasa/#:~:text=In%20a%20tribute%20to%20Shoemaker,and%20upset%2C”%20he%20said

"Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics & Indigenous Futures" (book) by Brian Burkhart

Two-Eyed Seeing from Mi'kmaw Elder ALBERT MARSHALL: (article)

https://www.2eyedseeing.ca/about-5

- (article) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1609406918812346#

- Two Row Wampum Belt, more https://honorthetworow.org/learn-more/history/

- LIke Dr. Melanie Goodchild said (Episode 6), that space between world is the "spirit space," and Alvin mentioned, this is the space of complementary ideas and relationality.

Alvin would like to send gratitude to:

- Mi’kmaw Professor Hilding Neilson. http://hildingneilson.com

- Ojibwe, Black, and Swedish descent Professor Deondre Smiles. https://deondresmiles.com

- Shoshone Scholar and Director of the Salish Kootenai Indigenous Research Center, Dr. Ren Freeman. https://irc.skc.edu

- Kanaka Maoli Scholar and Activist Dr. Uahikea Maile. https://uahikea.com/about

- Anishinaabe Knowledge Keeper Douglas Sinclair.

- Sonoran Yaqui Scholar and Educator Dr. Juan-Carlos Chavez.

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DR. NICOLE REDVERS (Deninu Kųę́ First Nation) chatted to us about berries changing genetics, Indigenous Medicine Science as a reawakening, Land as healing and amplifying these connections through consciousness, differences between spirit & soul, what is a gut feeling?, and decolonizing & recolonizing our microbiome.

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Dr. Redvers graciously donated her honoraria to: Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation https://arcticindigenouswellness.org/

SHOWNOTES:

-INDIGENOUS SCIENCE: contextual, holistic, relational, symbolic, non-linear, not limited by time, uses collective observation of its people to explain natural phenomenon through both real and metaphoric narratives. Nicole Redvers ND, Yuria Celidwen PhD, C. Schultz PhD, O. Horn MD, C. Githaiga MA, M. Vera RN, M. Perdrisat BComm, L. Mad Plume MPH, D. Kobei MBA, M. Cunningham Kain MD, A. Poelina PhD, J. Nelson Rojas, Be'sha Blondin. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00354-5/fulltext

-Food is Medicine

-Berries are healing, reduce inflammation and so much more...

- "Health Effects of Traditional Indigenous Chokeberry" https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05410327

- "Chokeberry Reduces Inflammation in Human Pre-adipocyte Cells" D. Brunelle, N. Redvers, K. Larson, A. Bundy, J. Roemmich, & D. Warne. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9193701/

-Natural Medicine- "A Prescription for Nature, Conversation with Dr. Nicole Redvers" https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/blogposts/parx-people-a-conversation-with-dr-nicole-redvers

-Land as our Guide to Heal

- often, we depend on someone else to heal us, but what happens if we reconnect with Land as Healer?

-When we breathe in forest air, our white blood cells increase and our cortisol (stress) levels decrease. You are never alone when you are with the Land

-Brain & Gut connection

-think about following that "gut feeling," and how that can guide us. decolonize and Recolonize your Microbiome

-Canada Food guide

-this guide has harmed many Indg people. It was created by and for European people, with plants and animals common in those origin areas.

-many communities are not used to digesting wheat (gluten) or dairy. Their bodies have evolved to processes necessary proteins, sugars, calcium from other foods.

-Prophecy from Sahtu Dene Elder Be’sha Blondin

- the ground will melt, which will awaken sicknesses (like antrax), and the axis of the Earth has shifted (through the extraction of excess freshwater, and ice melt) which has been observed by shifting in star locations. This shows an acute understanding of Natural Law

-What Water are you made from?

-humans are 60% water, we need water to survive, we are the water we consume. What water are you made from? What lake, river, groundwater, glacier, leads to your tap? When you travel, you turn into water from that location, after 3 months, your cells change & you turn into that location's water. how do give back to the spirit of the water that keeps you alive.

The Science of the Sacred, Dr. Redvers https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/599277/the-science-of-the-sacred-by-nicole-redvers/9781623173371

The Value of Global Indigenous Knowledge in Planetary Health Dr. Redvers (article) https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/9/2/30

Urban Land-Based Healing: A Northern Intervention Strategy https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/33177

Bridging Indigenous Systems and Modern Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RD4tDrKgB4&themeRefresh=1

⁠School of Medicine & Health Sciences: Indigenous Faculty Fridays⁠ w Dr. Redvers https://med.und.edu/education-training/indians-into-medicine/newspages/iffnicoleredvers.html

- Support the Wildfires https://nwt.unitedway.ca/2023-emergency-response/

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We asked TORRES WEBB "what is science to you?" which lead to a conversation about fish traps & cosmic cycles, the harm terra nullius has done to Indigenous Science, the science of earth ovens, conciliation over reconciliation, Indigenous methodologies and climate change, a strength-based education, and DNA connections to the Earth!

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SHOWNOTES:

Tobacco Teachings:

- Often, when tobacco is offered or smoked, it is ceremonial tobacco. Which means, it is organic (without all those nasty chemicals you find in cigarettes) and therefore is nice to the land when you make an offering with it, or smoke it.

- Ceremonial tobacco also means it is grown and harvested “in a good way”, which means there is ceremony and reciprocity involved in the tobacco planting and harvesting.

- Tobacco is used in many communities as a sacred medicine, and as we learned here, even as far away as Torres Strait! With the similarities, there will be differences, so please be humble, and ask about the local processes for offering and harvesting.

Torres Strait/Australia FISH TRAPS:

- Fish Traps in Gulf of Capentaria: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/fight-to-save-ancient-indigenous-fish-traps/11396302

- Brewarina Fish Traps: https://www.mpra.com.au/brewarrina-fish-traps

- Woven Fish Traps: https://www.abc.net.au/education/ingenuity-of-indigenous-fish-traps/13953566

Canadian Indigenous FISH TRAPS:

- https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-ingenious-ancient-technology-concealed-in-the-shallows/

Treaty in Australia:

- https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/treaties#:~:text=A%20treaty%20is%20an%20international,international%20legal%20rights%20and%20obligations.

Treaty in Canada:

- https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028574/1529354437231

Terra Nullius (Empty Land):

- Article: https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-doctrine-of-discovery-and-terra-nullius

- Australia's Native Title: https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/native-title/

- Challenging Terra Nullius (Australia): https://www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/senior-secondary/cook-and-pacific/cook-legend-and-legacy/challenging-terra

Conciliation or Reconciliation:

- link: https://leapintothevoidwithme.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/reconciliation-or-conciliation-an-inuit-perspective/

- link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2018/dec/05/can-we-handle-the-truth-indigenous-australians-depend-on-it

Placenta and Land Connection:

- Placenta Garden (Australia) https://www.croakey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Wathaurong-placenta-garden.pdf

- Indigenous midwives (Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-restore-birthing-traditions-1.6884794

Indigenous Knowledge & Climate Change:

- Rising Sea Levels (Australia): https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/sea-level-rise-in-kowanyama

- Indg Communities & Climate Resilience (Canada): https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/11/28/indigenous-communities-forefront-climate-resilience/

- Indigenous Climate Hub: https://indigenousclimatehub.ca/effects-on-indigenous-communities/#:~:text=Indigenous%20communities%20are%20more%20likely,their%20abilities%20to%20access%20essential

Pemmican Preservation:

- I can't find the article Torres and I were talking about, I will keep searching. But here is one: https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14567.Pemmican.pdf

"The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars" (book) by Duane Hamacher

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We chatted with Anishinaabekwe DR. MELANIE GOODCHILD and asked "what is science to you?" which lead to a conversation about how we talk to the universe, the three types of stories, being a Settler Whisperer, yarning with Duck Shit Tea, reconciliation through "the magical space," and the efficacy of science through art and language.

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SHOWNOTES:

www.melaniegoodchild.com

-"Relational Systems Thinking: that's how change is going to come, from our Earth Mother"

- "Reparations and Reconciliation: Embracing Indigenous Social Innovation and Changing the Rules of Philanthropy"

- "Duck Shit Tea: Yarning and the Magical Space between things

-Three Types of Stories: Creation, Personal, Life-Story (and how to discover your gifts). We invite you to think about and find your gift(s), and think about your helpers (who, what, have helped you along your journey?).

- Niigani Miinigowiziiwin "we give these gifts to the future"

-"dear big S Science", by Kori Czuy, bringing to the forefront "little s" science of the Land.

-Two Row Wampum Belt

-Seventh Fire Prophacy, Seventh Fire Prophacy with Grandfather Willian Commanda & Elder Claudette Commanda"

"Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world" by Tyson Yunkaporta

-Ocean Kiana, Nishinaabe Artist.

-What is Yarning?

-"Braiding Sweetgrass,"Robin Wall Kimmerer

-John Mohawk, Seneca author, editor, professor.

-Science (Indigenous, Relational, Global) is most successful when in relationship with artists and Language Speakers. This allows for science to be contextual, therefore better understood through experience and spirit.

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We chatted AGAIN with Siksika Astrophysicist ROB CARDINAL about "Everything is a Reflection," who invented math?, determinism/free-will and the universe, flow states, A.I. responsibility and protocol, meaningless coincidences, and always remembering to forgive.

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SHOWNOTES:

-Science is..."the relationality between the four ways of knowing/being (spiritual, physical, emotional, mental)"

-ask yourself the question that stumped me... "Who invented math?"

- what is "Spintronics"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics

- Ceremony and time: when a ceremony is done at the same time (alignment of sun, stars, plant etc..) regularly, then it becomes a cyclical and rhythmic cycle. The moment a ceremony happened throughout this unique and relational cycle, a vector of frequency is created. This information/knowledge gifted or received within this ceremony, both reverberates outwards and also inwards!

-Noether Theorem: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html

- Think about water and ice as symmetrical and asymmetrical....

- Pi as the Crux! A circle is never a static circle.

- Science and Determinism- Boem's deterministic physical theory. Do you think the universe is deterministic? Do you think we have a choice in how the universe and our everyday changes? What is Free Will?

-Grandfather Rock has lost its Free Will. (remember, rocks are animate, they are made of particles that are in constant motion, creating frequencies that interact with other particles connected to other rocks, trees, animals, humans, stars ... ). Grandfather rocks are significant for Indigenous Peoples because they hold knowledge from the Ancestors, that through ceremony and relationality, can be gifted to us humans.

- Flow State as defined by Rob, is a time when we are gaining a symmetry that is more balanced. Remember the four ways of being/knowing, spiritual/emotional/physical/mental? Often science focuses on only the physical and the mental, and therefore is imbalanced and discounts 50% of the knowledge that is out there! Everything is constantly in flux (as described by Dr. Leroy Little Bear), and therefore is always imbalanced but always trying to balance itself. Remember this the next time you are in a flow state!

- James Conway's "Game of Life" play it here

- A.I. as the Event Horizon

- the "100 Prisoners Puzzle"

- Napi and the Rock (Ohkotok and the Glacial Erratic). Presented by Making Treaty 7

-www.indigenous-ai.net CHECK THIS OUT!!

- and remember the wise words of Uncle Rob "REMEMBER to FORGIVE"!!

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We chatted with Siksika Astrophysicist ROB CARDINAL about: holistic science, quantum woo woo, frequencies & spirit within quantum (and the emission/absorption spectra), everything is a reflection, rocks never make mistakes, and the "one electron universe." Here we go, on this first two-part episode of ANCESTRAL SCIENCE!

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SHOWNOTES:

- "Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions" Richard Erdoes

- Remember Rob's three main methods to do good science (and just be a good human): Gratitide, Humility, Respect.

- Dr. Leroy Little Bear (Kainai Nation) "Within Western Science, it is only scientific if it can be measured. But within Indigenous science, it is only scientific if it is in relationship." See Jagged Worldviews Colliding by Leroy (https://www.law.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/documents/hewitt-leroy_little_bear_on_jagged_worldviews.pdf), and a video of Leroy here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJSJ28eEUjI&list=RDLVgJSJ28eEUjI&start_radio=1&rv=gJSJ28eEUjI&t=0).

- "Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics" Gary Zukav

-Emission/Absorption Spectra: https://www.sparkscience.ca/absorption-and-emission-spectra. "The relationships and connections we make with other animals and world-views is the key to expanding the perception of the world that any one human can access," (Dr. Little Bear).

-"Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview" F. David Peat. This is a book written by a non-Indigenous author, but he took time to connect with Indigenous people, and spent time at Blackfoot Ceremonies and in community. It is a good way to being having these conversations.

-www.indigesteam.ca check out and support the amazing work that Rob is doing inspiring the next generation to better connect with Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing.

-Willie Ermine (Sturgeon Lake FN) and "Ethical Space" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85PPdUE8Mb0)

https://weavingknowledges.ca/weaving/ethical-space

- "The One Electron Universe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UgJR3tLoQ

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