By Chels Marshall, Rosalie Chapple and Joanne Wilson
2. Rosalie Chapple (biography)
3. Joanne Wilson (biography)
What is Indigenous science? How can it be properly recognised? How can we overcome current practices where Indigenous knowledge-holders are generally not regarded as experts, their knowledge is not used as evidence or in decision-making, and non-Indigenous people think Indigenous knowledge needs to be ‘validated’ by Western science?
Lack of recognition of Indigenous data sovereignty raises concerns about the conduct of research – by and for whom? Indigenous cultural knowledge is often used without permission or proper protocols, and is used and appropriated under Western science.
What does successfully honouring Indigenous knowledge look like?
“Our culture is the science.”