Who You Callin' a Savage? The Beauty and Brilliance of Indian Science

A perfect example is the Matsês indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon
 recently released the first Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia to a positive reception,
 but how will it be taken?
Image Courtesy of acaté Amazon Conservation and Indian Country Today.

August, 3, 2015.

Steve Russell, Indian Country Today, has written an informative article about the relationship between indigenous knowledge and science.

"The traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples is often considered sacred, but it avoids similar collisions with science in several ways. The most obvious is that our ideas of how the world is ordered are mostly, like science, based on observation, albeit observations that reach very different conclusions based upon stories we hesitate to abandon. The wisdom of “companion planting” corn, beans, and squash was self-evident. Scientific verification came later."

-Steve Russell, Indian Country Today.

To read the full article, click here.

For more information,

Visit:

• Amazon Tribe Creates 500-Page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia
• Indian Country Today, July 15, 2015.
• Amazon Tribe Creates 500-Page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia
• Mongabay, June 24, 2015.
• acaté Amazon Conservation
• Chaco Canyon National Historical Park
• Chaco Canyon: Observation
• Fajada Butte
• UNESCO World Heritage
• About
• Chaco Culture
• Scopes Trial
• PBS
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Haudenosaunee Guide For Educators
• The Three Sisters
• The Three Sisters: Exploring an Iroquois Garden
• Cornell University
• The Three Sisters
• A Legend
• Diversity
• Sister Corn
• How to Plant the Three Sisters
• Exploring Corn
• Activities
• Information Evaluation
• A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
• The Polygot Project
• Spanish & English translation
• The Great Debate
• Native American Netroots, July 18, 2011.
• Valladolid Debate
• 5 Things You Didn't Think of as Native Technology
• August 6, 2015.