Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Learning From Traditional Wisdom – Let’s approach IKS notes differently. Rather than speaking generally about how the world’s 400 million indigenous peoples (UNESCO) approach knowledge acquisition, I would like to focus on a single group of indigenous peoples: the Ojibwe of North America. Indigenous groups are unique.

The Ojibwe are the indigenous people I grew up with, so I have had many experiences learning about and sometimes participating in their culture.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Learning From Traditional Wisdom

These notes focus more on what might be called “traditional Ojibwe culture.” Modern Ojibwe people vary in the degree to which they call themselves “traditional” or the degree to which they are influenced by traditional ways of knowing. And this is important. Some Ojibwe people rarely use IKS, while others use it a lot. And those who use the traditional IKS Ojibwe approach will still rely on reason, emotion, … Read the rest