Indigenous Knowledges
Are based in relationships and value place-based, lived, emotional, and spiritual ways of being and knowing. As Dr. Leroy Little Bear notes, “Knowledge, from an Indigenous perspective, is the relationships one has to ‘all my relations’.” As one of the people involved in bringing together The Buffalo Treaty, Dr. Little Bear explains that Indigenous Knowledges can work with and enrich western science by extending beyond empirical measurements. Because Indigenous Knowledges emphasize relationships with place, they are incredibly diverse, varying between Nations and the landscapes they inhabit.