It's in multiple ways. There are ways that we do it through, first of all, community connections, really starting with elders, knowledge-keepers and indigenous scientists and listening to their knowledges and what they would like to bring in. Secondly, it's through education. How do we create events that are connected to indigenous science so that everybody can understand, so there's a connection that people can get? It's understanding the frequencies of the drums and the healing of those frequencies to different star maps.
We also do a lot of work with schools and communities to bring experiences out to community. That is both in schools and on the land—in communities on the rez. It allows them to see the depth of science within their knowledge. We do this with an experiential workshop that explores the depth of knowledge with Blackfoot stories of the Makoiyohsokoyi, or the Milky Way. That is connected to many scientific teachings within this story, and it goes back to that original question about story: Story is knowledge.
The Wolf Trail story has significant scientific knowledge within it—predator-prey relationships and living in balance—and tells specifically about a point in the sky from only a few years ago, if you remember the supermassive black hole that was photographed. We were like, “We've known that for thousands of years. That's the wolf eye or the thunderbird egg.” There are many stories.
There's a lot of science within these knowledges. At the science centre, we try to bring those together and make them relatable for everyone—not just for indigenous communities and children and people—to see themselves in science. I never saw myself in science or mathematics when I was growing up, so to have these experiences would have been significant for me. We're trying to do that but for everyone so that everyone can experience and understand the depth of the scientific knowledges that are within these stories. By “stories” I mean science's connection with the land.