Reconciling Ways of Knowing Dialogic Forum
Several dialogues have taken place over the last few months in discussion of how we can reconcile our ways of knowing between Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science. Each of these dialogues is available for viewing free on the forum website. There are also free blog post summaries under each video available on the website.
The first dialogue is titled, “Why Reconciling Ways of Knowing?” It includes conversations with Miles Richardson, O.C.; Dr. David Suzuki, Dr. Nancy Turner; and Elder Dr. Dave Courchene, Jr. and focuses on the need for reconciliation between Indigenous and Western scientific ways of knowing.
The second dialogue, titled “Enacting Ethical Space in Knowledge Sharing” includes conversations with Indigenous knowledge holders, scholars, practitioners, and scientists, Danika Littlechild, Elder Dr. Dave Courchene Jr., Elder Ira Provost, Elder Elmer Ghostkeeper, Indigenous scholar Dr. Vicki Kelly, Dr. Kelly Bannister, Dr. Gleb Raygorodetsky, and Karin Smith-Fargey. It focuses on Indigenous Ethics in relationship to Indigenous knowledges.
The third dialogue is titled, “Braiding Ways of Knowing.” It includes a conversation between teacher, researcher, and writer, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer and friend, colleague, renowned ethnobotanist and moderator Dr. Nancy Turner on the theme of Braiding Ways of Knowing.
The fourth dialogue is titled, “Two-Eyed Seeing and Beyond.” Here, Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall, Drs. Jesse Popp, Andrea Reid, and Deborah McGregor discuss the idea of Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing and other related frameworks for understanding across ways of knowing in dialogue.
