Canceled - Indigenous Ways of Knowing Nature: Biomimicry or Bio-harmonization?
In Indigenous cultures, ways of learning and knowing embrace “all our relations”— the other-than-human world of plants and animals and ecological processes. Using place-based examples from her three decades of work with Indigenous communities around the world, Native ecologist Melissa K. Nelson demonstrates how the resilient power of this Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and the promise of Indigenous sciences can be used to address today’s ecological problems.
Melissa K. Nelson is a scholar-activist and professor of sustainability in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She is a contributor to and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (2018) and What Kind of Ancestor Do you want to be? (2021). For nearly 30 years, Dr. Nelson has worked with Indigenous communities nationally and globally to support Native land rights and stewardship, food sovereignty and biocultural restoration. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
Nature@Noon is a series of workshops that explores the collection of ASU's new NatureMaker library and its potential to inspire sustainable innovation. NatureMaker is a collaboration between the Biomimicry Center and the ASU Library.