Indigenous ways of knowing are Relational (not isolated and impersonal) each person exists the entire universe: all who have ever lived, all who “Within are living now, and who are yet to be born, as well as nature Our Mother – Earth, the sun, moon, planets, and all the stars all of the sacred universe since – the beginning and until the end of time…we are all cosmic beings. We come from the stars.” All things are related, and I have a duty towards them, just as they have a duty towards me. is one’ a wholistic network of spiritual relationships exists.” “‘Everything ways of living in nature tend to focus on relationships between “Indigenous knowledge, people, and all of creation (the natural world as well as the spiritual)….this requires participating fully and responsibly in such relationships. understand the world is to live in harmony with it, and not to dominate any “To part of it. Domination disturbs the balance and equality among relationships.” everything is related and relationships require responsibilities, the whole “When of existence is made up of a web of interrelationships sustained by responsibilities. As we experience the world, we are also experienced by the world.” indigenous act of observing is the opposite of a typical scientist’s “The observation, in which the observer is supposedly emotionally, ‘objective’ morally, economically, socially, politically, and culturally detached. A relational, responsible world is a personal world, but a detached, objective world is impersonal.”
Indigenous ways of knowing are Relational (not isolated and impersonal) “Within each person exists the entire universe: all who have ever lived, all who are living now, and who are yet to be born, as well as nature – Our Mother Earth, the sun, moon, planets, and all the stars – all of the sacred universe since the beginning and until the end of time…we are all cosmic beings. We come from the stars.” All things are related, and I have a duty towards them, just as they have a duty towards me. “‘Everything is one’ a wholistic network of spiritual relationships exists.” “Indigenous ways of living in nature tend to focus on relationships between knowledge, people, and all of creation (the natural world as well as the spiritual)….this requires participating fully and responsibly in such relationships. “To understand the world is to live in harmony with it, and not to dominate any part of it. Domination disturbs the balance and equality among relationships.” “When everything is related and relationships require responsibilities, the whole of existence is made up of a web of interrelationships sustained by responsibilities. As we experience the world, we are also experienced by the world.” “The indigenous act of observing is the opposite of a typical scientist’s ‘objective’ observation, in which the observer is supposedly emotionally, morally, economically, socially, politically, and culturally detached. A relational, responsible world is a personal world, but a detached, objective world is impersonal.”