Thank you.
To be brief, so that there is an opportunity to hear from others as well, I think a fundamental question is how indigenous knowledge is similar to and different from science.
There are many similarities in terms of what your question asks. For example, if my colleague Joseph Catholique, who is a caribou hunter, goes out on the land, he sees 10 caribou. The scientist who goes out on the land also sees 10 caribou. That's evidence-based knowledge. If Joseph Catholique is going out on the land year after year, and that scientist arrives only once every five years, the depth and the detail of the indigenous knowledge are profound when compared to science. There is a long time series of knowledge for indigenous people that gives that credibility.
We see conflicts between science and indigenous knowledge around basic things, like how many caribou and population dynamics. I have sometimes said that indigenous knowledge is better than science, in the sense that it has a spiritual connection as well. People understand caribou migration and population dynamics based on evidence, but also because of that spiritual connectedness.