Indigenous Studies

"Database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond."

From the website, "All of these people are experienced members of the native community who maintain close contact with elders and who have a strong interest in environmental issues because of their own activities on the land. Many of their observations provide direct links between the climate and environmental changes they observe and the effects of those changes on life in rural Alaska"

Hearing before the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, hearing held November 18, 2021.

From UC Davis, this 23 min. video "prepares a research community to consider the legacy of colonialism in their own research methods and how to challenge and rectify these destructive legacies by encouraging us to reflect upon how indigenous wisdoms can inform anti-colonial scientific method."

This 14 min. video is "a 'Big Questions' presentation by Dr. Zoe Todd, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University."

Access for UAS users only. This 1 hour 25 min. film explains tensions between Indigenous ways of knowing / sovereignty with environmental groups.

Dialogue 13 from the Online Dialogue Series at Recognizing Ways of Knowing, "a panel of leading Indigenous researchers and practitioners dedicated to transforming science education and the practice of science and research."

In this 29 min. video, "Dr. Gregory Cajete, Director of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico, explains how Indigenous physicists not only observe the world, but participate in it with all his or her sensual being because everything in native thought is 'alive' with energy."

In this 1 hr 30 min. video, "Leroy Little Bear, a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Canada), speaks about science through the lens of Native American culture and teachings."

In this 1 hr 03 min. video, "Wendy F. Smythe, Ph.D., Xáadas, discusses how science curriculum and western-based pedagogies within mainstream education systems do not reflect the true nature of Indigenous knowledge systems nor the deep connections Traditional knowledge systems have developed over thousands of years. The absence of this knowledge base can inadvertently communicate a deficit-based STEM identity, which can directly impact Native youths’ participation and engagement in STEM.