VIRTUAL: Applying Education

Abstract

This session will address the North American Indigenous residential school era, and the negative implications of settler-colonial academia on Indigenous knowledge and cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary, sharing networks. In particular, this piece of work will address making science sovereign, and the importance of Indigenous learners and educators in STEAM fields, especially during climate chaos. Drawing on the urgency and need for sustainability in science fields, this session will directly link that necessity with Indigenous demands and longing of reconciliation through land and environmental connection and management. How we bring humanity back into the sciences without bringing all of humanity, into science? This work will also address citizen science, as a model, for modernizing Indigenous information sharing. Functioning on the belief that science is a tool for planetary communication, this session will dive into including the first peoples of biodiversity, into that communication web, purposefully. This session, the tools and resources associated are for all stages of learning and learners.