This is probably now the top hot-button issue at Canadian universities - the move to replace ‘European-based knowledge’ as exclusionary, inadequate and subjective, and to replace it in some cases with “indigenous knowledge,” and even something called “indigenous science”… what some might say is superstition or magical beliefs… The idea that “indigenous knowledge” is not to be questioned, that it has value equal to supposedly ‘European’ science… is an incredibly worrisome and strange idea.
I might be less inclined to roll my eyes at this piece of idiocy if the "indigenous knowledge" was advanced enough to encompass such objects as... the wheel.
I think they managed levers. But not the wheel.
I didn't expect the legal pot up in Canada to hit them this hard this soon.
Well, that will dump Climate science on it's ass, if they're honest about this duality. I don't exoect them to be. Also, the "medicine" of indigenous peoples didn't permit abortion. It DID allow and use all sorts of herbal medicines.
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