I agree with the braiding metaphor as well. I understand the difference between the western scientific method and traditional knowledge, but I worry sometimes that when we refer to traditional knowledge, it's backward-looking. The concepts of indigenous science, the ongoing monitoring of the environment and the local nature of that ongoing monitoring by indigenous people and communities are often not necessarily as different from science as you might think. Inuit people where I live, for example, monitor things like sea ice every day. They've been doing it for years.
I'm going to try to be brief for the chair. I'm sorry about that, sir.