Thank you for that response building on the concept of respect and reciprocity, which I think you mentioned in your opening remarks as well and seems to be so foundational in this conversation.
One things that's interesting to me is that when I think about that, I think about it as standing on mountaintops. There's western science and individuals with that way of knowing standing on a mountaintop. Then there are indigenous knowledge-keepers standing on a mountaintop. We both need to be looking across and looking up to each other, in a way. To me, it is a sign of respect and reciprocity when we can each recognize the unique value in each other's way of knowing.
Sometimes in our conversations I feel like we're still treating western science as having primacy and thinking about how indigenous traditional knowledge can add on to western science or complement it. What if we flipped it the other way around? I think it would look very different.
I wonder if any of the panellists today could talk about this. If we were to give indigenous traditional knowledge primacy, which I think it deserves, how would western science complement it?