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Ancestor's Voices: Native Leadership Brings Change to Conservation Efforts

By: Stewart Huntington
ICT
July 8, 2024
https://ictnews.org/news/ancestral-voices-native-leadership-brings-change-to-conservation-efforts?utm_source=ICT&utm_campaign=3c21e36b92-The+Weekly%2C+2%2F16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e3432615c-3c21e36b92-361103872
Indigenous peoples are moving into leadership posts at conservation organizations, bringing light to the value of Indigenous knowledge.

Traditional Knowledge and IP: Quiz

World Intellectual Property Organization
https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/tk_quiz_2020.html?utm_source=WIPO+Newsletters&utm_campaign=2997f120fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_29_01_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bcb3de19b4-2997f120fb-254898449
Take this quick and enlightening quiz about your knowledge of intellectual property issues in the world.

A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Land and Sky

This webinar features Dr. Leroy Little Bear Dr. Little Bear who compares the historical foundations of scientific thought from European and Indigenous perspectives, identifying paradigm differences that have become contemporary challenges to collaboration in resource management. One of the revered traditional knowledge holders of our lifetime, Dr. Leroy Little Bear was the founder of Canada·s first Native America Studies Department at the University of Lethbridge, the Director of the Harvard University Native American program, and was a recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education. He is a member of the Kainai First Nation.
http://indigenouseducation.org/a-sense-of-place-indigenous-perspectives-on-land-and-sky/

Learning from Indigenous Populations and Local Communities

By: Zsolt Molnar, Leticia Doormann, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Berta Martin-Lopez, Fikret Berkes, and Orjan Bodin
One Earth, Issue 1, Voices
2019
Key words: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), sustainability, herders, fescue, biodiversity, interconnections, Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK), Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC), conservation, pollinators, co-production of knowledge, interdependent
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30004-1?utm_campaign=STMJ_99072_CALLP_HYB&utm_medium=email&utm_dgroup=99072_SCO_AB3-TSLO_SGL_ALL&utm_acid=-1846720798&SIS_ID=-1&dgcid=STMJ_99072_CALLP_HYB&CMX_ID=&utm_in=DM580506&utm_source=AC_7
Six authors share their perspectives about how learning from Indigenous communities around the world can help us better understand and steward the ecosystems of the world.