The Ancestral Science Podcast team gathered to speak about their experiences at the Majorville Sacred Site or Iniskum Umapii. Visiting this location evokes an indescribable feeling of reverence for both its location and connection to the Ancestors that knew of its significance. Overlooking the banks of the Bow River, this site gifts a view of the horizon unparalleled in both distance and connection to the stars. 

We (Emil, Alex, and myself) got to visit Iniskum Umapii with Innu Astronomer Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Rob Cardinal, and a group of local Blackfoot Elders and Knowledge Keepers.

If you are interested in the "Stones, Stories, and Stars" Gathering of Indigenous Astronomers/Scientists and Knowledge Keepers being hosting in Treaty 7 later this year, or want to be more involved in this relational "research", or have a sacred site/medicine wheel you want us to look into, email relational.science@gmail.com for more information.

This conversation goes along with the previous pod episode, "Sacred Sites: Protocols, Science, & Stories (part 1)" with Dr. LAURIE Rousseau-Nepton, WILFRED Buck, ROB Cardinal , & Dr. ALVIN Harvey about Indigenous and Ancestral science to make whole, validating science of land and ancestors, what is a sacred site, and a teaser of the precision and depth of alignments between stone circles, sacred sites, and star cycles from thousands and thousands AND THOUSANDS of years ago....

Much appreciation to CULTURAL SURVIVAL for the support of this episode and this project. 

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

Shownotes here!

Grab a smoke (popeye, tobacco, sage, or cheesestring), and join the Ancestral Science Podcast in sharing our experiences at this sacred site, and learning about the incredible depth of science from The Ancestors.

"Sacred Sites: protocols, science, & stories, part 1" LINKS:

SPOTIFY- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aVRmONzBg7pJojaooBIqO?si=bc99653a18674b56

APPLE- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ancestral-science/id1688883209?i=1000758175271

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We were incredibly grateful to speak with a neechie superhero line-up of guests, inclusive of Dr. LAURIE Rousseau-Nepton (Innu), WILFRED Buck (Opaskwayak Cree), ROB Cardinal (Siksika), & Dr. ALVIN Harvey (Dine Navajo) about stars as reconnection to stories and Ancestors, Indigenous and Ancestral science to make whole, connections between living on Mars and living on the rez, validating science of land and ancestors, importance of who and what defines a sacred site, re-defining the term “medicine wheel,” and a teaser of the precision and depth of alignments between stone circles, sacred sites, and star cycles from thousands and thousands AND THOUSANDS of years ago....

Check out the SHOWNOTES and for some great educational resources and links to previous episodes with some of these guests.

Much appreciation to CULTURAL SURVIVAL for the support of this episode and this project. Stay tuned to part two of this topic where we dig much deeper into the science within the sacred sites of which prompted a gathering of Indigenous astronomers, scientists, Knowledge Keepers, and Elders from across Turtle Island and beyond. If you are interested in either having us look closer at a sacred circles site near you OR want more information about this project or the "Stones, Stories, and Stars" gathering in October, email us at relational.science@gmail.com

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

Venture to a place that is sacred to you, grab a warm black coffee and a comfy blanket, and reconnect with the ancestral knowledges of land and sky with Laurie, Wilfred, Rob, and Alvin.

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On this episode, we recorded in the midst of a snowstorm in between the winter and spring seasons, here on the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut’ina Nation, Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis. 

We were inspired by a previous podcast episode Karen Colbert, an advocate for culturally grounded STEM and AI integration specialist. We talked about protocols and AI, racism and capitalism and AI, why are we spending billions of dollars on AI data centres (of which require significant amounts of water) while we cannot get clean water to many Indigenous communities, and asked the most important question "what are your intentions AI?"

Here is the link to Karen's Ancestral Science Episode titled "Humanity and Dignity within AI," Spotify and Apple.

Check out Karen’s TEDx talk “The Most Dangerous Lie A.I Keeps Repeating”

Check out the SHOWNOTES and our WEBSITE (www.relationalsciencecircle.com) for some great educational resources. 

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer and guest Alex Flett!

As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

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Donation, on behalf of Lily, was made to Papahana Kuaola

Check out the SHOWNOTES and our WEBSITE for some great educational resources, previous episodes, or a teaser of links below...

Additional LINKS:

-“Ethnomathematics Solves Real World Problems” (Ancestral Science Podcast, with Dr. Linda Furuto) (SPOTIFY, APPLE)

-“E lele le Toloa, Ae Ma’au i le Vai: Returning Home Through Hawai’i, Samoa, and Ethnomathematics” (article, LilyMarleen Uta’i, 2025)

- "Ethnomathematics Curriculum Resources (Hawai'i based)"

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

Take off your socks and shoes, ground yourself with the heartbeat of the Land beneath you, and join me in welcoming LilyMarleen Uta’i

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Check out Karen’s TEDx talk, released on YouTube in the coming months, the title is “The Most Dangerous Lie A.I Keeps Repeating”

Check out the SHOWNOTES and our WEBSITE (www.relationalsciencecircle.com) for some great educational resources. 

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

Grab a cup of tea in your fav mug and prepare yourself to learn how to be a little less afraid of AI, with the talented and TEDx speaker, Karen Colbert. 

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This episode was recorded on an early Spring morning back in 2024, here on the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut’ina Nation, and Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis . As we patiently waited for the First Thunder of the season , we got to learn from Wilfred "The Star Guy" Buck, from Opaskwayak Cree Nation and Siksika Astrophysicist Rob Cardinal about the science and stories of the recent Solar Eclipse, the reverence and silence within the darkness of totality, the connection between the alignment, states of matter, and ceremonies, protocols of NOT LOOKING at these significant cosmic events, the Creation of "Tipis and Telescopes," the three-body problem, the North Star and moon cycles, and the origin of the Thunderbirds.

SHOWNOTES: For all you curious humans and educators, here is a link for the shownotes, which as always, has a plethora of videos, links, resources, to learn more and support. There are soooo many for this episode, have fun!

Thanks to Emil Starlight, the pod's talented multimedia podcast producer. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated.

And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

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We were grateful to speak with Brendon Many Bears, from Siksika Nation, who, alongside Blackfoot Elders and Knowledge Keepers have been working alongside Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer of the University of Calgary Archaeology Field School & Public Archaeology Program to learn more about Ancestral Blackfoot knowledges within the stones and earth of Nosehill. We learned about the cultural importance of look out points and "tipi" rings, vision quests and balance, reconciliation archaeology, the importance of ceremony within science, and experiencing the Blackfoot scientific stories of these Lands. 

University of Calgary Archaeological Field School and Public Archaeology Program:

Dig site: EgPm-143

CTV Article: U of C students, staff partner with city to unearth ancient Indigenous belongings at Nose Hill Park

CBC Article: What was life like for pre-contact Blackfoot people?

It was created with the support of TELUS Storyhive.

Thanks to Emil Starlight for his talents in  editing, videography, and audio.  As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that epic opening tune!

Please take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod further, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

If you are a curious education, or want more information, check out our website https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com/

WIthout further ado, the Ancestral Science Podcast welcomes BRENDON MANY BEARS 

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This is the SECOND part, of the Auntie Laugh-based episode. If you haven't listened to part one, released on January 19th, maybe go check that out first. But if you already have...are you ready for some more knowledge, stories, science, and laughs?

In this episode, the Ancestral Science Podcast reconnected with Melissa Roberts and Emily Kerton, Indigenous educators weaving knowledges and Land-based science into the Ontario curriculum. We learn about the importance patience & humility within education and knowledge, bird goggles, "suspension of disbelief", sacrificing your ego, "the third deer", falling acorns, and how NOT to use the faciliTREES.

Check out the SHOWNOTES in this episode for some great educational resources. AND....you HAVE TO stay tuned to the end for an absolute TREAT in the form of "a trifecta of poop stories" that will surly induce facial and stomach laughter cramps, as well as a hilarious LIGHTNING ROUND!

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH here.

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The Ancestral Science Podcast wanted to re-release our dear friend Walter's episode. He had a brain aneuruym, and needs all the positive energy, prayers, and support. If you can, please consider donating to his GoFundMe, this is going to be a journey of recovery and support. Every prayer, frequency, and donation helps.

Join us in supporting our friend Walter McDonald White Bear, who, at this time last year, was NOMINATED FOR A JUNO!! To celebrate his nomination, we gathered some friends, a few guitars, and some pizza. Along with some impromptu riffs and freestyle we got to chat about embodying music, spirit as an additional voice/instrument, connections between goosebumps and music, frequencies, songs, & language of the Land, the suppressed Native American Influence on Rock n Roll, Rhythm and Poetry, and the connection between snagging blankets and flutes. 

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated.

Check out Bear's website www.walterwhitebear.com and his GoFundMe.

Sending all the healing frequencies!

Grab a non-alcoholic beer or a Bepsi, grab your favourite instrument, and come jam along with Bear and the Crew.... Without further ado, let's welcome WALTER WHITE BEAR, SHARON FOSTER, and EMIL STARLIGHT

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With such a great conversation, this episode became a 2-parter! Stay tuned next week for episode 2 when we will add some great educational resources in the SHOWNOTES, and here is a teaser... stay until the end of EPISODE 2 for an absolute TREAT in the form of "a trifecta of poop stories" that will surly induce facial and stomach laughter cramps. 

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH here.

As well, these times can be difficult, but remember that all is interconnected, so send your Prayers and Positive Energy to Minnesota.

You can also watch this episode as a video episode on Youtube along with other Ancestral Science Podcast videos.

From experience, we all know that LAUGHTER is MEDICINE...so grab a no-spill sippy cup with some tea or coffee, light a smudge if you can, and learn from and laugh alongside the Aunties- Melissa Roberts and Emily Kerton. 

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Here, we discussed sacred numbers, alien fungi, #spaceback, and new tattoos (shout out @lnkbyDawn and @pirates.loot).

Check out NEW #spaceback INDIGENOUS SCIENCE MERCH here  

Ancestral Science Podcast on YouTube

Ancestral Science Podcast Episodes related to this Chat:

"Space Justice & Cosmic Relationality" with Dr. Alvin Harvey here

Indigenous Science Resources & Past Pod Episodes

https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. 

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It was a windy winter afternoon back in 2024, and we recorded inside a tipi at Seven Chiefs Sportsplex on Tsuut'ina Nation, amongst the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis. 

The Ancestral Science Podcast was excited to learn from BRUCE STARLIGHT from the Tsuut'ina Nation about the disconnect of science from Spirit and Land, the significance of the depth of tobacco roots, the connection between mushrooms and the stars, sacred numbers, dinosaurs and energy, and Star people.

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. Check out our webpage for unique Indigenous Science Merch links and lots of additional educational resources!

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio, Alex for pod support and marketing. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Grab a cozy blanket, maybe throw it on a camping chair to get that "tipi storytime" vibe, grab a tea, a double double, or an apple fritter, and learn from the insightful teachings from Bruce Starlight.

You can also watch this episode as a video episode on Youtube along with other Ancestral Science Podcast videos.

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FULL SHOWNOTES & Additional educational LINKS: here

NEW Video of this episode on YouTube!

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This episode was recorded in November 2024, on a mild wintery morning here on the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut’ina Nation, Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis. 

The Ancestral Science podcast got to learn from Dr. Yellow Bird, by first beginning with a guided meditation to ground ourselves and focus on the present, then we explored a mathematical equation for decolonization, how Auntie jokes can protect the brain, the effects of colonization on our bodies and brains, the smell of bacon and well-being, mindfulness and systemic racism, and ancestral eating.

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio, Alex for pod support and marketing. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Get comfy with your fav blanket or meditation pillow, by a houseplant or a window to connect with the sky, open all your senses and heart to wellness teachings from Dr. Michael Yellowbird.

FULL SHOWNOTES & Additional educational LINKS: here

NEW Video of this episode on YouTube!

Unique Indigenous Science Merch here. Help keep the podcast going!

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This is probably a great episode to check out on YouTube, link here.

This was way too much fun...unfortunately, a part 2 is needed! Stay tuned for that next week.

So come join the team to learn about decolonizing movie posters, fishing lures, the connection between mukluks and card games, its Grogu not baby yoga, and the importance of a doorstopers in fishing!

Our website has unique Indigenous Science merch and a lot of educational resources (soon to be more).

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio, Alex for pod support and marketing.

Feel free to comment about what Indigenous Science "show n tell" you would share, or like us to share in a future episode.

So let's reconnect with out grade school selves, for a relational game of "show n tell" with the Ancestral Science pod team!

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WE ARE ON YOUTUBE! If you want to SEE this episode, go here.

Check out:

Moonstone Creation in Inglewood in Calgary Alberta

Authentically Indigenous Craft Market, December 5-7 at The Confluence in Calgary Alberta.

Great places to get some authentic, local holiday gifts, and support Indigenous businesses!

Get your own unique Indigenous Science Merch

All proceeds support knowledge keeper honoraria and keep the pod going.

Thanks Emil Starlight for editing and videography, Alex F for production support, and Yvonne Jobin and Moonstone for hosting us!

Lots of resources and links and fun at our NO AI webpage

https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com

A LOT more trusted resources will be uploaded there soon....

Can you believe we are kinda on Youtube....slowly....check it out.

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And amongst the company of millions of beads and Indigenous art, the Ancestral Science Podcast was excited to speak with KIM BROTHERS, Cree from Northern Alberta, about revitalizing the lost arts of quillwork, tufting, and fish scale art, the sacred ratio of brain to hide within tanning, birch bark biting, art with tails, bones, and scales, the OG beads, the difference between appreciation and appropriation, and the story of the spirit bead.

Remember to tune in next week for "Smoketalk" with the pod team, where we chat more in depth about the topics from the previous episode. 

YouTube link below along with lots of other educational resources and links for you to learn more!

This episode was created with the support from Telus STORYHIVE

Thanks to Bespoke Productions Hub and as always, Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio, Alex for pod support and marketing.

Grab a your current beading, tufting, or sewing project, your favourite snack from your Ancestral Land, and learn about Indigenous Science & Art with KIM BROTHERS of Moonstone Creation - - - a great place to shop for authentic Indigenous art in Calgary, Alberta, go check them out. They also host classes!!

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If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Deadly Math: Movement, Kinship, & Action" with Chris Matthews, I recommend going there first then coming back to smoketalk to listen to the Pod Team's takes and expanded conversation about this episode.

This episode Emil & Kori welcomed Brendon Many Bears who brought insights about tipi aerodynamics and Blackfoot mathematics.

Check out ATSIMA (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance), an amazing organization that we donated to for this episode as requested by Chris. They are an Aboriginal-led charity creating new ways of teaching and learning mathematics by connecting mathematics to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

If you want more Indigenous Mathematics Pod episodes:

"Hunting Mathematics" with Philip Stevens

"Change Making, Anishnawbek Mathematics, & Surgeon Legs" with Cheyenne Sego

"Wayfinding through Relational Trigonometry of Stars, Swells, & Spirit" with Dr. Kamuela Yong

"Reconciliation Science through Tipi Math & Indigenous Sound Baths" with Brendon Many Bears & Darren Rea

"Mathematics is Creation, Being, & Medicine" with Dr. Edward Doolittle

"Ethnomathematics solves Real World Problems" with Dr. Linda Furuto

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"Knowledge that isn't shared isn't knowledge" (Casey Eagle Speaker, Kainai)

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Honoraria from this episode was donated to ATSIMA (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance).

If you want more Indigenous Mathematics Pod episodes:

"Hunting Mathematics" with Philip Stevens

"Change Making, Anishnawbek Mathematics, & Surgeon Legs" with Cheyenne Sego

"Wayfinding through Relational Trigonometry of Stars, Swells, & Spirit" with Dr. Kamuela Yong

"Reconciliation Science through Tipi Math & Indigenous Sound Baths" with Brendon Many Bears & Darren Rea

"Mathematics is Creation, Being, & Medicine" with Dr. Edward Doolittle

"Ethnomathematics solves Real World Problems" with Dr. Linda Furuto

Remember to tune in next week for "Smoketalk" with the pod team, where we chat more in depth about the topics from the previous episode. 

Thanks Bespoke Productions Hub and as always, Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio, Alex for pod support and marketing.

Grab a sea mollusk (Chris' fav Ancestral Food) or your favourite snack from your Ancestral Land, and learn about Deadly Math with CHRIS MATTHEWS.

SHOWNOTES: for all you curious pod humans, educators, and nerds! Lots of links in this episode, I got a little carried away with these, but there is a lot of fascinating stuff with both Aboriginal history and Math Curriculum. Chris is doing great work!

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If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Food Sovereignty, Smoke Science, & tending the flame of Cultural Resilience" with Daryl Kootenay, I recommend going there first then coming back to smoketalk to listen to the Pod Team's takes and expanded conversation about this episode.

Check out HOWL, an amazing organization that provides land-based education for youth across Canada!

Daryl was on the Ancestral Science Podcast Season 1, Episode 16, check out his episode titled "Glacier Sovereignty & the Science of Hunting and Laughter" here.

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"Knowledge that isn't shared isn't knowledge" (Casey Eagle Speaker, Kainai)

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This episode was created with the support of TELUS Storyhive.

Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

Please like, share, follow, and rate the pod, it goes a long way to share this knowledge.

Thanks to Emil Starlight (@emilstarlight) of Limelight Multimedia for editing, videography, and editing as well as support from Bespoke Productions Hub. 

Intro composed and performed by Walter White Bear, Sharon Ann Foster, and Emil Starlight.

Questions for the Pod? Email us at relational.science@gmail.com

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If you haven't listened to the previous episode "Decolonizing Blood & Birth" with Alycia Two Bears, I recommend going there first then coming back to smoketalk to listen to the Pod Team's takes and expanded conversation about the previous episode.

Check out Alycia's book "The Feast"

If you are curious or an educator, here are some shownotes for additional content and links.

Ancestral Science Podcast Website

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Follow us on IG and FB

Please like, share, follow, all the things...helps us to get these important conversations out there.

"Knowledge that isn't shared isn't knowledge" (Casey Eagle Speaker, Kainai)

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Grab a tea with honey, snuggle a small human or fluffy pet, and join us in this incredibly important conversation for EVERYONE (not just women) with ALYCIA TWO BEARS.

Remember to check out Alycia's new poetry book "The Feast” about love, loss, sex, and ceremony through an Indigenous feminist lens.

Curious for more resources or are you an educator? Check out the shownotes: here.

You can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

Please like, share, follow, and rate the pod, it goes a long way to share this knowledge.

Thanks to Emil Starlight (@emilstarlight) of Limelight Multimedia for editing, videography, and editing. Alex for marketing and being a superstar oskâpêwis, as well as support from Bespoke Productions Hub. 

Intro composed and performed by Walter White Bear, Sharon Ann Foster, and Emil Starlight.

Questions for the Pod? Email us at relational.science@gmail.com

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Check out our webpage, which is being updated (again, stick with is!) https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com

-lots of resources for educators and all you curious humans

-and NEW MERCH!

Thanks Emil Starlight for editing, audio, and video talent, Alex for marketing and being a superstar oskâpêwis, and Bespoke Productions Hub.

The Ancestral Science pod crew, Emil Starlight, Alex Flett, and Kori Chewbacca (haha), chatted about INDIGENOUS SCIENCE FICTION while recording LIVE on location, beyond Earth...I mean... at the Calgary Comic Convention about how Science Fiction has been inspired by Indigenous Teachings, was Barf from Space Balls inspired by a rez dog? Thinking about how animals, trees, and the wind are Ancestors and therefore use language that goes beyond human-to-human, The Force, glitches in the Matrix or teachings from our Ancestors? Reconnecting with ancestral technology and DNA, our deepest fears and reoccurring dreams, and the future of Indigenous Science Fiction...

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Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

Please like, share, follow, and rate the pod, it goes a long way to share this knowledge.

Thanks to Emil Starlight (@emilstarlight) of Limelight Multimedia for editing, videography, and editing as well as support from Bespoke Productions Hub.

Intro music composed and performed by Walter White Bear, Sharon Ann Foster, and Emil Starlight.

Questions for the Pod? Email us at relational.science@gmail.com

See related episodes of ASP: 

-Season 2 Episode 23 “Indigenous Science Fiction”

-Season 1 Episode 9 “Space Justice & Cosmic Relationality” 

Full Shownotes: here

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Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

Please like, share, follow, and rate the pod, it goes a long way to share this knowledge.

Thanks to Emil Starlight (@emilstarlight) of Limelight Multimedia for editing, videography, and editing as well as support from Bespoke Productions Hub.

Intro music composed and performed by Walter White Bear, Sharon Ann Foster, and Emil Starlight.

Questions for the Pod? Email us at relational.science@gmail.com

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This is the final episode of SEASON TWO!! Stay tuned for some exciting pod fun happening over the summer, from an “Indigenous Youth Podcast Take-over” to more videos... email us at relational.science@gmail.com for more information.

For all the EDUCATORS, check out the shownotes for additional links, expanded learnings, and much more!

Hand to heart to Emil Starlight for editing & audio amazingness, and Indigenous Screen Office and Bespoke Productions Hub for their support.

Grab a glass of Bantha milk or some Rootleaf Stew, and open your mind and heart to the topic of Indigenous Science Fiction with the Ancestral Science Podcast team...

**cue the Wookie Grunt**

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", that shares stories of his Ancestral lands before and after colonization. We dug into the science within these stories, from food preservation and sensory hunting to clam digging in relation to moon cycles and sand stories.

For all you teachers and educators, we have extensive show notes and additional links available here. 

Hand to Heart to Indigenous Screen Office and Bespoke Productions Hub.

Please like, share, follow, and rate the pod, it goes a long way to share this knowledge.

Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

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The episode was recorded in Fall 2023, on the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut’ina Nation, Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis. 

The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with LATIFA PELLETIER-AHMED, French Canadian with Bangladeshi roots, who is a botanist, herbalist, educator, artist, and co-owner of ALCLA Native Plant Nursery on Treaty 7 (just North of Calgary, Treaty 7). Latifa taught us about significance of 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. 

Grab some herbal tea alongside a robin or crocus friend, and let's learn together about the importance of Native plants from Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

For all you educators and curious folks who want to learn more, check out the shownotes here!

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Upon Philip’s request, honoraria was gifted to someone we know that is in need. They were grateful, thank you.

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As always, for all you educators out there, extensive shownotes are HERE

Here are some fast cool links from the episode:

“A Woodcutter’s Story: Perceptions and Uses of Mathematics on San Carlos Apache Reservation” (article) by Philip Stevens

“‘A space for you to be who you are’: an ethnographic portrait of reterritorializing Indigenous student identities” (article) by Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, Philip Stevens

-Math as...

...arithmetic

       -in school math was a place to count

       -it was about memorization and abstract ideas, disconnect from self, culture, land, spirit

  ...pornography

           -Philip mentioned that the processes he was required to go through to understand global/western mathematics made him feel like a pornographer, because it removed all emotion and love. 

      ...taxidermy

             -Learning global/western mathematics was like hunting then killing mathematics, taking its life, its spirit, its energy, then stuffing it with inanimate, unfamiliar, unrelated...materials. It is no longer a relative, no longer connected to culture, Land, ceremony, community, or spirit.

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Cheer on Bear at the JUNOS and check out his website www.walterwhitebear.com

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Grab a non-alcoholic beer or a Bepsi, grab your favourite instrument, and come jam along with Bear and friends.

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This episode of the Ancestral Science Podcast was recorded on location in January on the misty Lands of the Nisqually Nation just South of Seattle, by the Nisqually River. 

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Check out some of Hanford's cedar hats, woven with science, spirit, and ancestral stories, at MccloudCreations.

Full SHOWNOTES: (great for educators!!) here

Grab your latest beading or sewing project, brew a pot of berry tea, and come learn alongside HANFORD MCCLOUD.

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Terri donated her honoraria to Good Hoops, a grassroots basketball program out of Edmonton Alberta, creating opportunities through basketball. 

Check out Terri and Amber’s podcast called 2 Crees in a Pod, where they have created space for Indigenous resurgence and stories!

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FULL SHOWNOTES: these are great resources for educators and learning more!

Available here.

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We were grateful to speak with Dr. ALVIN HARVEY a Navajo/Diné Scientist about Space Justice, the ethics of travelling beyond Earth, what it means to be in relationship with Space, how space is ALIVE, and why humans really shouldn't do donuts on Mars. Alvin is a doing his post-doc on Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.

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Cheyenne generously donated her honoraria to Na-Me-Res, an organization that provides temporary and transitional housing to Aboriginal men, located in Toronto.

Want to learn more? Or are you a teacher and want to dig deeper into these teachings? Check out the extended shownotes: Here.

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Episode correction: Cheyenne commented on there being “more student-to-student abuse in residential schools” but meant to say “there was more student-to-student abuse in residential schools than the researchers were expecting.”

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Full Shownotes Doc (great for educators!): here

As always, if you want to share the knowledges gifted from the pod, please respect oral traditions and protocols by connecting the knowledges with the Knowledge Keeper and the Lands they are from. This ensures the knowledges are not appropriated, not pan-Indigenized, and retain connections to the peoples and Land they are from.

Get comfy with your fav blanket or meditation pillow, by a houseplant or a window to connect with the sky, open all your senses and heart to wellness teachings from Dr. Michael Yellowbird.

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Michelle generously donated her honoraria to www.skippingstone.ca, and organization that empowers trans folks here in Treaty 7. 

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Full SHOWNOTES: here

Important Reconciliation Resources:

Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada

8Th Fire, Wab Kinew article, video

https://www.nativecalgarian.com

The Indian Act

National Indigenous Economic Strategy

UNDRIP

Pam Palmater: Idol no More

Treaty Right to Health, UBC Treaty Rights to Health

Richard Van Camp

American Indian Codetalkers of WWII

https://www.nativecalgarian.com

www.skippingstone.ca

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Michelle generously donated her honoraria to www.skippingstone.ca, and organization that empowers trans folks here in Treaty 7. 

Remember, you can support the pod and rock some unique Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop, all proceeds go towards Knowledge Keeper honoraria, following protocols, and keeping the pod going.

Full SHOWNOTES: here

Important Reconciliation Resources:

Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada

8Th Fire, Wab Kinew article, video

https://www.nativecalgarian.com

The Indian Act

National Indigenous Economic Strategy

UNDRIP

Pam Palmater: Idol no More

Treaty Right to Health, UBC Treaty Rights to Health

Richard Van Camp

American Indian Codetalkers of WWII

https://www.nativecalgarian.com

www.skippingstone.ca

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Now, open your minds and heart to teachings from the very very big to the very very small.

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Cool links:

-Gravitational wave SOUND:   https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160211v2

-https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/corey-gray-siksika-blackfoot-nation-mcgyver-1.5145208

-https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1211597243/the-first-ever-detection-of-gravitational-waves-and-the-powwow-that-preceded-it

Full Shownotes (a great resource for teachers and educators): here

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We began the conversation with DR. NICOLE REDVERS (Deninu Kųę́ First Nation) with defining both "science" and "healing," which lead to a conversation about how "everyday can be a healing experience," berries changing genetics, Indigenous Medicine Science as a reawakening, Land as healing and the effects of amplifying these connections through consciousness, differences between spirit and soul, what is a gut feeling?, and decolonizing and recolonizing our microbiome. 

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Dr. Redvers graciously donated her honoraria to: Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation

SHOWNOTES: here

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After many conversations about the "seemingly irrational" experiences we all have had, the Ancestral Science Pod team decided to gather some cool people amid the season where the veil between worlds is the thinnest, and everyone's intuition and creepy-meter is heightened...

In this TWO PART episode, we chatted about Schrödinger's cat and Sasquatch, shapeshifters and star people, glitches in the matrix, how to bargain with the universe, spirit spaces and quantum, overlapping dimensions, and the seemingly unexplainable but Indigenously rational "ghost" stories and creepy happenings.

Light a candle, crack open a bag of candy corn, and listen to some stories about spirit and science with Rob Cardinal, Sikapinakii Low Horn, Natasha Donahue, Emil Starlight, Alex Flett, and Kori.

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In this TWO PART episode, we chatted about Schrödinger's cat and Sasquatch, shapeshifters and star people, glitches in the matrix, how to bargain with the universe, spirit spaces and quantum, overlapping dimensions, and the seemingly unexplainable but Indigenously rational "ghost" stories and creepy happenings.

Light a candle, crack open a bag of candy corn, and listen to some stories about spirit and science with Rob Cardinal, Sikapinakii Low Horn, Natasha Donahue, Emil Starlight, Alex Flett, and Kori.

Part 2 launched NEXT WEEK!

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Check out Shane on TOP CHEF CANADA- Season 11

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Full SHOWNOTES (great for additional information and resources for teachers): COMING SOON

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Full SHOWNOTES (great for additional information and resources for teachers): here

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Despite the guests concerns this episode may take space away from the voices and teachings of Elders and Knowledge Keepers, the pod hosts understand the importance of accomplices and allies; Indigenous people can't do this work alone. Miwa and Amy also donated their honoraria back to the podcast, thank you.

You can support the pod through some unique episode-themed Indigenous Science merch at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop to support Knowledge Keeper honoraria, editing, and keeping the pod going.

Shownotes: here for additional information, readings, articles, webpages, videos, please check out the shownotes. These are great for teachers!

Also, remember to check out more about the guests here:

-https://soilcamp.ca

-“Relational Land-Based Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Education” (2024) (book)

-“Asian Changemakers: Shaping the Future through Land-based Learning with Dr. Miwa Takeuchi” https://youtu.be/kwLSCBBkKpo

-https://www.aciar.gov.au/project/slam-2021-107

Thanks to Indigenous Screen Office, Storyhive, and Windspeaker.

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SHOWNOTES (great for extra information, articles, and resources for teachers): here

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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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FULL SHOWNOTES: here

VIDEO of Episode: here

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We were grateful to NATASHA DONAHUE, a Métis physicist and Indigenous Science educator, about Science and Spirituality, the linear and restrictive history of science, the depth of scientific knowledges within astrology and alchemy, time as a biproduct of energy exchange, how "everything is aware," dwelling in the flux of the "greyspace," and the questions around and relationality of star beings and UFO's.

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Natasha donated her honoraria back to the pod. Appreciate the support.

**episode correction: Natasha mistakenly said “the Earth is at the center of the solar system,” when she meant “the sun us the center of the solar system.”

FULL SHOWNOTES: here

(these include lots of links, resources, articles, etc...great for TEACHERS)

Additional Links:

-Dr. Gregory Cajete (books): “Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence,” “Look to the Mountain,” “Critical Neurophilosophy & Indigenous Wisdom,” “Spirit of the Game”

-Dr Gregory Cajete (Video): “An Indigenous Ecology,” “The Indigenous Mind Rising” “Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky- NASA”

- Acakosuk (Wilfred Buck at Lakehead University)

-Ojibwe Star Map

-Native Sky Watchers

-Natasha Donahue & Careers in Science - article

-“Science through an Indigenous Lens” (video), with Natasha Donahue

-“Curiosity and connection inspire love of Indigenous constellation stories” (CBC article) with Natasha Donahue

-“Indigenous Ways of Knowing the Stars,” (windspeaker interview) with Natasha Donahue

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Check out the @AncestralSciencePod YouTube Channel, for some VIDEO episodes for Season 2!

There were A LOT of links, articles, videos, webpages, etc...for this episode, so thought it would be easier to just link them as a PDF for all to enjoy without edits. SHOWNOTES

Hai hai.

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"Knowledge that isn't shared isn't knowledge" Casey Eagle Speaker (Kainai Nation). That is where this podcast started and why we are maybe a bit too ridiculous about the Ancestral Science Shownotes. So we don't have to edit or cut down these notes, ideas, and more importantly, the links, videos, books, resources, articles, we have decided to make the full notes available in a google doc link HERE.

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What is science to you? it is a misused and misunderstood term, often associated w scientific, standardized methods. Mathematics existed BEFORE proof

Applied Epistemology: connects science to us as humans/this is not positivism, not objectivism/this is the way we understand the world/science is about ourselves

Indigenous MathScience: local to human, land, community. The essence of teachings are taught and passed on through different traditions, customs, languages.

Global Math/Science: universal, w standard methods. culture removed. Can be taught the same anywhere in the world. “Western” mathematics is a misunderstood term and reinforces the mysteries of the East and rationality of the West; this term can other.

Alan Bishop: six universal activities which can be described as mathematical: COUNTING, LOCATING, MEASURING, DESIGNING, PLAYING, EXPLAINING

Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas): Can we be thankful for mathematics? Math begins with creation.

Math as Medicine by E. Doolittle

-Math -understanding the world & ourselves from different perspectives. How can mathematics contribute to wellness?

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address: remembering the water, fish, trees. where is mathematics?

Numbers led is back home-mathematics is first, it is ours, from the first moment of Creation

-like the waves on the shore, which give us the drum beat. math is being, creation, medicine

Math&Residential Schools

math was how they really got us! (residential school survivor)- it reinforces one right answer that increase control & decrease critical thinking. How do we stop the cycle of harm done by teaching math in this way?

4 Directions of Math

Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual

Ramanujan: Math & Spirituality

UPCOMING:

Math Bundle Project- June 2025

Tipis and Wind Tunnels- TBD 2025

Indigenous Mathematicians

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-University of Calgary,Indigenous Viewbook: University can get your brain thinking differently!

-Biogeoscience Institute: This is where Tessa realized “Indigenous knowledge is Science”

-Majorville Medicine Wheel: shows significant star locations, and solstice/equinox cycles. (beware: these articles are NOT written by local Indigenous people).Elders have said this "wheel" is older than Stonehenge, & shows the depth of science within Indigenous Knowledges.  

-Ancient Indigenous Clam Farms-West Coast of Canada

-Elder in the Making

-Crocus: when you see this first flower of Spring, it is a relief, you know you have survived that winter! It is a start of a new beginning.

-being in-tune with the Land allows us to understand our needs and those of the Land.

-be careful when sharing knowledge that is gifted, there is a responsibility you have with that knowledge! Have HUMILITY and RESPECT. Many people are becoming protective of Indigenous Knowledge because of a history of exploitation, lack of protocols, overharvesting, and pan-Indigenization. Humans have to learn to adapt in a mixed world, these are shared lands with shared responsibilities.

-Invasive Species ruin the ecosystem and reduce diversity. Plant Native Plants!

-CP Railway & Invasive Species: European Fire Ants, Railroad Ecology

-Alberta Invasive Species Council 

-Alberta has rank winds and is pokey, native plants have adapted to this weather!

Additional Resources: 

-Popular Wildflowers of Alberta & the Canadian Rockies

-Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada

-Alberta Wayside Wildflowers

-Alpine Plants of British Columbia, Alberta, NW America

-Kainai Plants

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She graciously donated her honoraria to the MAUI STRONG FUND, supporting immediate and long-term recovery needs of people and places affected by the Maui fires. https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/strengthening/maui-strong-fund

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-Universe is our greatest textbook, from the heavens to the stars

- Spearfishing & Mathematics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8TBf_LTKI

(Light Refraction & Spear Fishing)
-mathematics is not only taught within the four walls of the classroom

-math is life, math is everywhere

-experiential fish pods

-engineering, preservation, land to sea, marine biology, navigation

Pacific American Foundation Waikalua Loko Fishpond: 

https://www.thepaf.org/waikalua/

-Ethnomathematics Graduate Division: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 

https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/

-Math has existed since the beginning of time, but it takes naming it, ethnomathematics, to be aware of it.

-ethnomathematics is a tool to navigate the world. The pillars of the UHM Ethnomathematics Program include: environment, integrated content, teaching practice, culture, community, values, legacy. https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/vision/

-“Current and Future perspectives of ethnomathematics as a program,” (book), M. Rosa, U. D’Ambrosio , D. C. Orey et al., https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-30120-4

-challenges students to solve real-life problems

-value-based education

-Polynesian Voyaging Society- Hōkūle‘a https://hokulea.com

-navigating around the world on a traditional voyaging canoe.

-learning to care for Island Earth

-to honour the past and raise the next generation

-Papa Mau, the first wayfinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IF8jCLxyAA

-islands have limits, we have to work together to survive and venture beyond the horizon

-Wisdom of the Hawaiian Star Compass

-mental construct of the canoe- 32 star houses, accounting for the winds, angles, degrees, trigonometry.

-being aware of all directions at all times.

-you have to trust your internal compass

https://ksdigitalfiles.ksbe.edu/assets/ohana/hawaiianstarcompass_ohana.pdf

https://hokulea.com/the-star-compass-by-nainoa-thompson/

-we can’t change the wind, but we can change our sails. When we change our sails, we often arrive not necessarily where we think we need to be but exactly where we are supposed to be. You never should scold the winds, the winds are our family.

-Future:  responsibility to talk about the issues like land and water rights and protect what was here before.

-        University of Hawaiʻi News: First-in-the-World UH Ethnomathematics Program Approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/01/11/ethnomathematics-licensure-approved/

-        PBS Hawaiʽi: Home is Here Featuring the UHM Ethnomathematics Program 

https://www.pbshawaii.org/home-is-here-episode-5/

-        TODOS Mathematics for ALL Podcast: Ethnomathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa  

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/todosmath/episodes/2021-05-24T11_03_21-07_00

-        University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Ethnomathematics Curriculum Library (FREE K–12 and Higher Education Resources):

https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/curricula/

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Support from the "Ancestral Podcast MERCH" www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop helps pay Knowledge Keepers, editors, & follow protocols to keep this podcast going. Jade donated her honoraria to SeedMob a youth-led Indigenous Science climate network in Australia, standing up for environmental & climate justice! 

-Science is understanding landscape, where everything has a role; even mosquitos.

-Humans & "Wilderness” importance of recognizing and valuing the work done by humans with deep connections and understanding of Land/Country, in shaping highly biodiverse landscapes. Indigenous Knowledge & the Shackles of Wilderness, Michael-Shawn Fletcher.

- The Wilderness Myth Michael-Shawn Fletcher.

- Concept of Wilderness is Destroying the Continent (video), Michael-Shawn Fletcher. 

-Fires & Climate Change: Indigenous Fire Mitigation Practices remove dry dense kindling through a slow, cool burn, & allow for germination. When controlled fires are not lit, fires spread more quickly, burn longer and hotter, not allowing time for animals to escape, or regrowth to happen. With more urban and developed areas, these cultural burns are more difficult to conduct.

-Indigenous Science is OLD, Wonky Holes in Hervey Bay, Wetland Science, Indigenous Fishing & Traps in Western Canada: here & here 

-Palaeontology in Warwich Region- Finding monsters, are stories AND morals and warnings that have deep connection to Land/Country and even science. (Githabul Nation). Mapping the Monsters of Aboriginal Australian Lore

-Importance of everything on Earth, even mosquitos! Everything has a place, everything has an effect. Think of the rodents, insects, plants that rely on mosquitos to survive.

-Mosquitos saved Wilfred Buck’s (Opaskwayak Cree) life, told in his book “I have Lived Four Lives.” 

-Depth of Tellings, Knowledge, & Science within Indigenous Languages: Indigenous Languages reflect people connection with the Land. Most are verb-based, reflecting the animation of all, with everything having a past/present/future. Durang in the Butchella language means both arm and tree.

-Responsibility TO the Land/Country: Humans cannot just TAKE from the Land, but what is gifted to us to survive (food, medicines, knowledge, air ..) come with a responsibility.

-Land Back & Land Rights Movements. Land Rights, Australia. Aboriginal Land Rights. Turtle Island & beyond Land Back. Be a decision-maker!

- Land Back: What do we Mean? 4R Youth Movement, & RedPaper

-Indigenous Referendum in Australia 2023. Reuters & Amnesty

-Australian Fires, 2020: the hottest and driest summer lead to large-scale fires. Many could have been stopped if Indigenous Fire Mitigation Practices were used prior.

-Environmental Science Forum solution to the increased fires

-Importance of Names: removing Indigenous/Aboriginal place names disconnects the community from Land, culture, stories, songs etc. Uncover the Deep Cultural Significance of Aboriginal Place Names, Aboriginal Place Names, Restoring Aboriginal Place Names key to Recognizing Indigenous Histories

-Aboriginal Songlines

-BabaKiueria 1986 short satire film about relations between Aboriginal Australians & Australians of European descent

-Indigenous Carbon Industry Network

-Ancestral Science Podcast’s Episode w Torres Strait Scientist TORRES WEBB Strength of Indigenous Science

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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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-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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Resources from Melissa:

To do this work in a good way, first learn about yourself and your ancestors. Find local Elders, Knowledge Keepers, Indigenous dancers/singers/artists/drummers/storytellers, Aunties, (head to a local Friendship Centre, Pow Wow, Native Centre at a University etc...) offer them semaa (tobacco), pour some tea, and LISTEN. They are LIVING LIBRARIES!

“Achieving Indigenous Student Success- a guide for Secondary Classrooms” by Pamela Rose Toulouse. An amazing book that can provide excellent guidance for baby Turtle Islander (settlers to North America) teachers.

“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Both of these books are outstanding for illustrating how Indigenous worldviews were the forerunner of Western/Global science. Kimmerer, a Potawatomi woman who is a trained scientist, beautifully explains how Indigenous ways and the Western way can work together to benefit all.

“21 Things you may not know about the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality” by Bob Joseph

This book shows how the Indian Act of 1876 effected the course of action for the Canadian government to eradicate Indigenous people of Turtle Island and how it still controls Indigenous people today.

“The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway” by Edward Benton-Banai. This book beautifully shares the Anishinaabeg (Ojibway) way of life and teachings.

Kendomang Zhaagodenomenon Lodge (KZ Lodge) @kz.lodge

Articles here (https://tbifc.ca/program/alternative-secondary-school-program-assp/) and here (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/kz-lodge-grant-1.6095408)

Melissa created and facilitated these programs for 2 years alongside the Lakehead Public School Board in Thunder Bay ON. Very cool Globe and Mail article (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-indigenous-culture-for-credit-how-a-thunder-bay-classroom-aims-to-get/). The program provides traditional, experiential learning on the land that links to the Ontario curriculum, continues today and has even expanded. Teaching hide tanning, beading, snowshoe making, fishing, forest fire fighter training, to tiny home building! The driving factors that Melissa used to develop the program were land, language, culture and community.

Embark (Indigenous STEM Education Program) @ Confederation College in Thunder Bay ON.

Melissa assisted with the development of this program in the role of Elder, Knowledge Keeper, and instructor. This incredible program offers Indigenous high school graduates and Indigenous women of any age the opportunity to explore and engage in STEM at the college level weaving in Indigenous worldviews and content in all areas of their studies. There are also culture-based sessions that have included building a wiigwaas jimaan (birch bark canoe), making snowshoes, paddles, beading, painting, making drums, and sharing traditional stories and cultural practices.

Alicia Brink, a Metis woman, is the manager of the program Alicia.Brink@confederationcollege.ca (who kindly shared her email!)

Melissa Roberts also generously offered her email for questions mdroberts0327@gmail.com

Melissa spoke about Blood Memory as a way of knowing, here is an article about that. (https://northernwilds.com/blood-memory-and-reclaiming-the-path/)

NorthWest Expansion (https://www.northwest.sciencenorth.ca )

“Never about us without us.” Please reach out, ask questions, LISTEN, offer tobacco, and move forward together.

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“Ancestral Science: Journeying by Spirit, Stars, & Stones” with Dr. JUAN-CARLOS CHAVEZ began with the question “what is science to you?” which led to conversations about the elements as relationships, navigating by stars, sticks, the corner bush, and whistle frequencies, significance of the teachings of spirit, harms of re-naming, modern maps, “exploration”, and the “white picket fence,” melting icebergs and viruses, and thinking about what is our place in the universe?

Elements as Relationships: the four elements connect to a variety of stories across Turtle Island, with the significance of the number four (4 winds, 4 directions, 4 colours, 4 peoples, 4 ways of living etc.) and how they balance one another. Within the Circle of Life (sometimes referred to as the Medicine Wheel), the four elements - water, fire, earth, air, represent the balance of creation, the relationships between each element, and humans in relation to the Earth. Casey Eagle Speaker (Kainai Nation) says “We are the Land. Our skeletons the mountains/rocks, our breath the wind, our tears the water, our emotions and spirit like the fire.” Sacred Defenders of the Universe @ TELUS Spark Science Centre

Boarders: boarders often disconnect (through politics or conflict), but Dr. Chavez challenges us to think about how boarders can connect by recognizing every tribes unique location (with unique medicines, winds, animals, stories) and each human’s unique gift. How can we better gather together as inter-tribal peoples to learn from one another? Great article by Marcy Angeles of Nednhi Chiricahua Apache.

Senses & Navigation: because of easy access to google maps, humans have become so disconnected from the Land and navigation. Next time you are outside, pay attention to your senses, how can you use them to navigate? Listen to the patterns of the birds, the flow of the rivers, the waves of the ocean, the smells of the flowers, observe the pathways of the sun in relation to the horizon/mountains/stars.

Significance of Names: names are identity and can represent gifts, significant moments/achievements, are often gifted in ceremony, and can hold responsibilities. When names are changed, be it a human or a place, these connections to culture and identity are lost. Next time you are driving or walking, pay attention to the street, river, valley, mountain names, whose stories do they reflect? Indigenous Naming Practices, Renaming, Renaming in Canada, Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada.

Polyanesian Wayfinding: People have been journeying across Mother Earth (over Land and Waters, and in the Sky) for thousands of years, to connect with other communities, trade medicines and food, follow animal migrations, and share knowledge. Navigation using relationships between sky, land, and water, is extremely complex, mathematical, and relational, and stories of the Hokulea are a great way to begin your journey in better understanding this type of Indigenous and Relational science. Hawaiian Navigation, Sticks to Navigate.

Tipis & Telescopes: an incredible Indigenous Science Knowledge gathering hosted by the one and only Wilfred Buck. Humans have all looked up at the same skies, but every community, across continents and lands created stories (connected to their own culture, animals, medicines, knowledges, weather) in connection to the stars. Unfortunately, there is often a singular story and name, often from Greek/Roman origin, that we connect with the stars. Tipis and Telescopes embraces and shares stories from various Indigenous communities about the stars and the sky. 

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Smudge:

• This is a ceremony that involves the burning of dried plant medicines which differ between communities across Turtle Island because we make relationships with the plants that are around us! Some plant medicine knowledge is openly shared but some require protocols, ceremony, and rites.

Tobacco Teachings:

•  We are not necessarily speaking about cigarette tobacco here, although, there are times you have a question for an Elder, and you only have a smoke to give, that is ok! Sometimes you can gift an Elder cigarettes if you know the type they “smudge their lungs with” (that’s code for smoking). Often, when tobacco is offered or smoked, it is ceremonial tobacco which is organic and also means it is grown and harvested “in a good way”, through ceremony and reciprocity.

Hantavirus & Navajo Science:

•   I have heard this story a few times from Hal, and never questioned the validity of the story or science. But I wanted to know HOW this story was represented online. At first glance, the stories/research disregard the significance of the Navajo community, Elders, and ceremony in identifying the cause of the outbreak. This is an example of Indigenous scientific processes, methodologies, and worldviews being discounted and removed because they didn’t align with Global Scientific methods. Some great articles here and here. 

Residential Schools:

•  Residential schools existed across Turtle Island (Boarding Schools in America) from the mid 1800’s to 1996. Established by the government and Catholic Church, their purpose was to assimilate Indigenous peoples into European culture and religion, by forcing children to live away from their families (sometimes very far away). Physical, Mental, and sexual abuse was common. On May 29, 2021, 215 “anomalies” at the Kamloops Indian Residential school were found, representing 215 bodies. This was not new to Indigenous communities, trying for years to get help in searching for the children that didn’t return home. The TRC estimated in 2015 there maybe upwards of 3200 deaths at residential schools, but since May '21 upwards of 7000 “anomalies” have been found. In residential schools, students were severely disconnected from their family, and therefore disconnected from love. If you are away from your family and love for years you therefore don’t know how to give love. This caused inter-generational trauma therefore significantly increasing addiction rates.

• Learn this history, hang out at your local Friendship Centre (often in larger cities, they support Indigenous people, host events, and Elders etc.). Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Read UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People). National Indigenous Residential School 24 hr Crisis Line 1-866-925-4419. Support Residential School Survivors.

 Living Together:

•  Many ask me "how do I start on my reconciliation journey?" I have learned that "you have to first learn about yourself, your ancestors, and the Land(s) you are connected to" first. Find out who are the original people who thrived on the Lands you were born, live, play on, here.
• Learn more about Indigenous/Relational Science here.

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