Natasha Burgess: Member Feature
Natasha Burgess is a Kindergarten teacher at Marysville Elementary School, and is passionate about learning outdoors with her students. She finds that the local environment provides so many [...]
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We searched high and low, and finally found it! 🔭🌟 We now have 35 copies available for you to order of Dr. Gregory Cajete's Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence: outdoorlearning.com/product/native-science/
In Native Science, Dr. Gregory Cajete “tells the story” of Indigenous science as a way of understanding, experiencing, and feeling the natural world. He points to parallels and differences between the Indigenous science and Western science paradigms, with special emphasis on environmental/ecological studies.
After discussing philosophical foundations, Cajete addresses such topics as history and myth, primal elements, social ecology, animals in myth and reality, plants and human health, and cosmology and astronomy. In the Indigenous view, we human observers are in no way separate from the world and its creatures and forces. Because all creatures and forces are related and thus bear responsibility to and for one another, all are co-creators.
Dr. Cajete is also a presenter in the upcoming year of 4 Seasons of Indigenous Learning! outdoorlearning.com/4-seasons/
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