Associate professor Kim TallBear talks about being named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment and why it's important to look at how Indigenous communities and people shape and participate in science. Click to read University of Alberta professor Kim TallBear has been named the first recipient [...]
The long history of First Nations people isn't one that can be found in books. Instead, it is a rich documentation detailed throughout time — a collective enterprise carried on by tradition and culture. Oral tradition has often been discounted as just stories — but science is proving that the facts behind those stories certainly shouldn't [...]
November 22, 2016 by Leah Donnella As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, N.D., concludes its seventh month, two narratives have emerged: We have never seen anything like this before. This has been happening for hundreds of years. Both are true. The scope of the resistance at Standing Rock exceeds just about every protest in [...]
When the indigenous peoples of the Americas encountered European settlers in the 15th century, they faced people with wildly different religions, customs, and—tragically—diseases; the encounters wiped out large swaths of indigenous populations within decades. Now, researchers have found that these diseases have also left their mark on modern-day populations: A new study suggests that [...]