Read this if you want to heal your relationship with nature
For Indigenous peoples, Western science has rarely been a neutral enterprise. Its history is entangled with colonialism, dispossession and extraction, and with institutions that converted knowledge into power, wealth and policy. Fifteen years after the United Nations formally urged governments to respect Indigenous knowledges and cultures, the language of reconciliation has become familiar. Yet the substance often remains elusive. We are told, repeatedly, to “listen to Indigenous voices”, but far less often shown what it would actually mean for Indigenous knowledge and Western science to work together – let alone whether such a marriage is desirable.
Jacklin Kwan came to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, first published in 2013, with doubt in mind, doubt that she skilfully dispels by dissolving the impasse between Indigenous knowledge and science.
Tap the link to read her review :https://www.newscientist.com/article/2525391-robin-wall-kimmerers-braiding-sweetgrass-is-still-an-essential-read/
