Indigenous thinkers reinvigorate STEM with traditional knowledge
CBC Radio | October 29, 2021
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Indigenous thinkers reinvigorate STEM with traditional knowledge
Science, technology, engineering and math and traditional knowledge have common ground
Indigenous knowledge is more than beads, drums and sweetgrass — it's also science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). On this episode of Unreserved, we talk to several people reintegrating traditional knowledge into scientific discourse.
Dave Thomas is an Anishinaabe architect from Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. Though he has had a busy career as an architect, a park project with his daughter changed the way he saw his designs. He started to question how his projects affected his community and how to better connect his work to his cultural teachings.
