Seeing how much we can work to incorporate more indigenous practices into science since it has been squeezed out for so long as we are reading in Braiding Sweetgrass (link the book here).
I feel that it is important to so many parts of the curriculum since we are putting so much work towards bringing indigenous perspectives into the BC curriculum. I feel like during a lot of the early time within the program we were told to indigenize our lessons, but we were not given much more information than that so we had no clue on how to do that. I feel the way braiding sweetgrass discusses indigenous practices and the relationship to science gives an approachable way to incorporate indigenizing courses like science.
I feel that the use of “here is how indigenous peoples were doing things and that it was way ahead of western science, so this new science thing is not actually that new”. I think that this really does help with incorporating indigenous world views within science. The book is beautifully done and easier to read through than the FNESC science book, which is definitely a challenge to work your way through to gain that knowledge, especially during the busy semesters in school. I am also glad that the book is being worked in a way that combines an indigenous perspective and a western scientific perspective rather than having them be viewed as mutually exclusive rather than two things that can work together and help grow both groups.
I find it important to see this format of indigenizing science because last year during practicum I was so stressed constantly about indigenizing my lessons that I really wish I had this example because I was trying to push everything to be far more indigenized than I really needed to which was becoming far more stressful and causing problems for me during practicum witch made it less fun to be there.
This fall into the BC Curriculum due to the ideas of indigenizing the curriculum you see throughout the K-9 curriculum. This concept also helps with the inclusion of FNESC and the first peoples principles of learning that we are using while creating lesson plans and unit plans.