week one reading notes

Personal notes:

Cedar book is in my Google books (personal account): https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=N3kyLJycxeMC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1

Indians of the Pacific Northwest is in my Kindle app

Pojar is physical book

Still need to buy Keeping It Living

Native Science, Natural Laws of Interdependence

• Science is culturally relative and depends on worldview of the definer
• Native American paradigm is made up of ideas of constant motion and flux, energy waves, interrelationships, all things being animate, "space/place/renewal", spirit
• Relations between humans and animals, humans and nature, animals and nature, all and spirit, etc
• "The only constant is change"

Is Native Science Science?

• Western science is comprised of mathematical and mechanistic theories, uses hypotheses and deductive reasoning, experiments
• Concept of science needs to be broadened to include other systems of knowledge that are more attuned to complex interdependencies between human innovation and social/natural environment
• Principals of Western science include
• relationships
• patterns/cycles
• multi-dimensional harmony in Universe
• curiosity
• imagination/creativity
• community and societal needs
• Principles of Native science include
• full integrity and ontological standing of living systems
• everything is animate and has spirit
• relations
• technologies should be non-invasive and non-destructive
• "knowledge holders must be ethical elders and leaders"
• Methodology of Native science
• Observation
• Lived experience
• Search instead of research
• Relations
• Dreams
• Visions
• Story, song, ceremony
• How knowledge is held, Native American
• Lived experience
• Dreams
• Vision Quests
• Sacred societies
• Nation
• How knowledge is held, Western
• Church
• Scientists
• Patented/copyrighted knowledge
• Differences between two kinds of science
• Western science is typically technical and mathematical
• Language of knowledge in Native science is usually in particular nNative language
• Western science has access to expert communities
• Native science has access to expert communities, but it is decided yb choice and by invitation to sacred societies 

Cedar

• Power of property and oneness of all beings
• Legends of cedar trees