Yes, I'll just give you that report—that's great.
I think there are so many challenges because, as I mentioned, from an indigenous perspective, there is such a seemingly narrow definition of “science” and how we do, be and know science and math. To me, science and math are under the same umbrella of thriving and understanding the world around us. Unless we can expand the understanding, then I don't know how to move forward.
If we continuously say that we can only do this more objective standardized method of being, doing and knowing science, not just understanding that but implementing it through the written word or a couple of consultations and not through ceremony, then it's not going to be done in a good way. The challenge is, how do we bring together, as mentioned many times before, this idea of breathing and weaving, of braiding? It's bringing these ways of knowing together. All of them have strengths, but often we've only been taught that a western or global scientific way of knowing, being and doing science is the only way to do it. How do we open that up and braid these knowledges together?
The challenge is in really, truly understanding what that means, and the opportunity, I think, is understanding. What are we missing when we're not understanding science in this way? There are so many examples that I can give. There's the example of that one simple Blackfoot word, “naamóó”, and the amount of science within it, and how indigenous languages are being lost and not passed on to the next generation for how long—