Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense ...
ABC News

World Ocean Day: Indigenous communities are increasingly teaming up with scientists to conserve marine ecosystems

Native groups in Belize, Australia and Hawaii are at the center of conservation. Scientists are increasingly turning to Indigenous communities for marine conservation, leaning toward generational ...
Science Friday

Indigenous Nations Are Fighting To Take Back Their Data

Illustration by Guadalupe “Mario” Valencia, for Science Friday. You might’ve heard this phrase before: data equals power. Because when you have data, you can decide how they’re used and who gets to ...
OPB

At Portland State, this revamped building centers inclusion and Indigenous values

This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News. Dr. Joseph Bull, citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, is Dean of the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. He gave a speech ...
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UC Santa Barbara ‘Indigenous knowledge’ class has students develop ‘plant relative’

・UC Santa Barbara is offering courses that incorporate Native American 'Traditional Ecological Knowledge' into environmental science. ・One class has students create a 'land acknowledgement' and ...
UNESCO

Indigenous knowledge guides dialogue on education and health in the Upper Rio Negro, Brazil

Carla Wisu took part in the meeting “Diálogos Fundo Brasil–ONU no Alto Rio Negro: Encontro de Saúde e Proteção de Povos ...
Science Daily

Genetic study of native hazelnut challenges misconceptions about how ancient Indigenous peoples used the land

Led by Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, an assistant professor in Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Department of Indigenous Studies, the innovative study was recently published in the Proceedings of the ...
SUNY-ESF

Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Science

Students in Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Science (IPES) Study Area collaboratively and creatively engage both Indigenous knowledge systems and Western academic science in environmental ...
National Catholic Reporter

Indigenous wisdom and science can work together to solve crises, pope says

Pope Francis shakes hands with an Indigenous woman during an audience with people taking part in a workshop jointly sponsored by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences on the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Western science beginning to catch up to what Indigenous history has always known

A very, very old mammoth tusk found near a road-widening project, for State Route 54 near National City in the early 1990s, set off considerable controversy among scientists. When a group of ...
Scientific American

Lost ‘Woolly Dog’ Genetics Highlight Indigenous Science

For millennia before Europeans colonized what is now called the Pacific Northwest, small, fluffy, white “woolly dogs,” known as sqwemá:y in one language of the Coast Salish peoples, roamed the coast.