Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

I'm a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky ...
CU Boulder News & Events

How Indigenous knowledge can help solve the climate crisis

As the world grapples with adapting to a warming planet, Indigenous Peoples are experiencing unique climate-related challenges exacerbated by centuries of having their land overtaken by settlers and ...
Opinion
NewsDay ZimbabweOpinion

Indigenous knowledge systems have their own data collection methods

WHEREAS imported Western methods of collecting data focus on scientific questionnaires, in African communities and mass markets, conversations and stories are the highest form of data. While the ...
YES! Magazine

How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire

“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...
CounterPunch

Organized Indigenous Communities and Indigenous Knowledge Can Prevent the Spread of Covid19

With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin American countries, indigenous peoples and communities face the challenges that this disease brings, the contagion of which has proven to be ...
Modern GhanaOpinion

Demystifying Indigenous Knowledge and Myths in Advancing African Agriculture

For generations, African farmers have sustained their communities through systems grounded in observation, experimentation, ...
Outside

Paying Lip Service to Indigenous Knowledge Won’t Fix Climate Change

One summer afternoon when I was seven or eight years old, I went for a hike with my grandfather and uncle in the Chuska Mountains of Navajo Nation to search for medicinal plants for traditional ...
Mother Jones

DC Regulators Are Welcoming Indigenous Knowledge—and the Right Is Freaking Out

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last September, when the Biden administration canceled several oil and gas leases in ...
Mongabay

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, an ethnobotanist with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of the study, first noticed that ...
Mongabay

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

A new study in Science Advances finds that primate species found on Indigenous people’s land face significantly less threats to their overall survival compared to species found on non-Indigenous lands ...
The Guardian

Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty “I’m a glorified clam counter.” So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western ...
The New York Times

Can Ancient Maori Knowledge Aid Science? Ask These Freshwater Crayfish.

As a weed choked a New Zealand lake, a tribe found a surprising solution in a centuries-old tool, adding to a pitched debate over how Indigenous knowledge can complement conventional science. By Pete ...