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Rise of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Assessments
There are more and more articles in the news about the value of Indigenous traditional knowledge being taken into account in climate change studies,...
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What Does Indigenous Knowledge Mean? A Compilation of Attributes.
What does Indigenous knowledge (IK) mean? That’s a big question because “there are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world,...
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A Brief Definition of Decolonization and Indigenization
Decolonization Decolonization once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognized as a long-term...
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Indigenous Worldviews vs Western Worldviews
Any individual within a culture is going to have his or her own personal interpretation of the collective cultural code; however, the individual's...
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Indigenous Protocol Usage of Ancestral and Spiritual Names
According to Merriam-Webster, protocol is “a system of rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in formal situations.”...
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Who Owns TEK?
Definition: Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) describes aboriginal, indigenous, or other forms of traditional knowledges regarding...