Traditional or Indigenous knowledge on anything from the medicinal properties of plants to the migration patterns of caribou is valued by scientists when they support or supplement other scientific evience. But when the situation is reversed—when Traditional knowledge is seen to challenge scientific “truths”—then its utility is questioned or dismissed as myth. Are Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge categorically antithetical? Or do they offer multiple points of entry into knowledge of the world, past and present?
Scientists are only now “discovering” what the Indigenous have known for years
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