A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass & Indigenuity (NACC 2021)

You can not miss this conversation between these two important people. Dan Wildcat and Robin Wall Kimmerer are engaging in a conversation on Indigenuity, how traditional knowledge meets innovation. Join us on October 7, 2021, at 10:00 AM CST in kicking off the weekend defining Indigenuity.
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Robin talked about an interview she had as a freshman. She talked about botany from her perspective. A botanist talked about botany from his perspective. Their perspectives were not the same. Botany is one aspect of biology. One can study fish, mammals, insects. One can study microbes. One can study biochemistry. One can move to a more basic level and study chemistry, more basic than that one can study physics. Physics offers classic and quantum. The deeper one goes, the farther from Western vs Indigenous. As a person who has studied all of this, I wonder how Robin’s perspectives might change. The Christian perspective of the world is very anthropomorphic, but so is the indigenous. The Cosmos, speaking metaphorically, does not care about humans. It is incapable of caring. It is comforting to think that there is a Mother Earth and it is helpful in certain aspects to think this way metaphorically. But I personally do not believe that the Cosmos, the galaxy that contains our sun, our sun, or this planet that we have named earth, are conscious. Being unconscious, they cannot care about humans. It is human hubris, in my opinion, to think in such a way.

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I just finished reading Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. I wonder what conversations might occur between Robin, Johnjoe and Jim. How to reconcile the wide range of perspectives on the future of biology.