In this episode of In The Margins, we feature a lecture from the University of Alaska Southeast’s (UAS) fall 2021 lecture series—Evening at Egan.
Tune in as geoscientist Dr. Wendy Smythe, a Haida woman, speaks about her personal journey in STEM and the importance of traditional knowledge systems in the development of K-12 curriculum.
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“I am the first generation removed from boarding schools. I did not have the experiences of those in my family. So, to them, education is trauma and pain and fear and the loss of culture and language. To me, it's something very different. And we have to acknowledge that when we work with our native students and with our native communities, that trauma is there. We have to acknowledge it, and we have to respect it.”
“That's how we all learn. If we can connect to it, we understand why we're learning it. So we started tying that to cultural and traditional use practices within the community."
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