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y Cheryl Bartlettfor “Realizing Indigenous Scholarship in the University”(roundtable discussion in conjunction with W. Cariou and M. Iwama);Annual Meeting of the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association“Looking back in order to look forward”within Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences,Winnipeg, MB, 3-6 June 2004Native Council of Nova ScotiaMi’kmaq Language ProgramArtist: Michael J. Martin

Toqwa’tu’klKjijitaqnnwhatwhyhowwhereIntegrativeScienceNative Council of Nova ScotiaMi’kmaq Language ProgramArtist: Michael J. Martin

What is … ?IntegrativeScienceuniversityscience4 yeardegree programArtist Basma Kavanagh

What is “Integrative Science”?Artist Basma Kavanagh

What is “Integrative Science”?“bringing knowledges together”Aboriginal – Western scientificArtist Basma Kavanagh

Integrative Science: knowledges togetherdivergencesdivergencesCommonGround

Why?today’s young adults …

Why?… and the next generation

image by Arlene (Dozay) Christmas for Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural CentreHow?Challenges?

living knowledge---“book-based”educationimage by Arlene (Dozay) Christmas for Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centrespiritualityholistic---disciplinaryfragmentationstudents …more familiarwith computersthan nature1 st Challenges!other issues

How?1236focus oncommon ground 54

MotherEarthfocus on:common groundPATTERNPATTERN RECOGNITIONBoth are based on observations of theenvironment.Both result from the same intellectualprocess of creating order out of disorder.

ecognizepatterns

ecognize patterns

ecognize patternsexpress patterns

PATTERN conceptual frameworknatural ideal abstractMotherEarthrecognize patternexpress pattern

PATTERNnatural ideal abstractvia expressionobserve interpret share

“expression smarts” (Howard Gardner)• numbers• language------------------• music• body (e.g. dance)• spatial• other people• self• naturalist------------------• spiritualmultiple intelligences theory“how”… tied toculturalvalue&usevia expression

VALUE & USE ……..LIVING EARTHrespectful &participatoryinterconnectivenessall my relations patternabstractidealnaturalmasterfulprediction & controlmathematical pattern

Aboriginal Knowledgesrespectful & participatoryinterconnectiveness… as relevant today as in times long ago

Medicine Wheelnatural ideal abstractPATTERN

ackground image from: “The Sacred Tree”by: Lane, Bopp, Bopp, Brown and Elders, 1984.published by: Four Worlds International Instituteexpanding sense of wholeness andconnectiveness … pattern within pattern

espectful & participatoryinterconnectivenessall my relations patternweave PATTERN… to create new PATTERNexpanding sense of wholeness andconnectiveness … pattern within pattern

pattern awareness … into knowledge… a resourceful capacity of being thatcreates the context and texture of life,a living process to be absorbed andunderstood …… in a specific ecological contextBattiste 2002

“treesfullyleaved”Mi’kmaq language= natural patternmoon months

unknownFEARknownDouglas J. CardinalMother Earth… especially, patternsof the animals“must become PATTERN-able”

Western Science Knowledgemasterfulprediction & control

Periodic Table of Elementsnatural ideal abstractPATTERN

pattern awareness … into knowledge… information and skills acquired throughexperience or education (Concise Oxford Dictionary)… information or data embodied in an agent(A Dictionary of Computing)… a resourceful capacity of being that createsthe context and texture of life, a livingprocess to be absorbed and understood …… in a specific ecological context (Battiste 2002)

patternawarenessmetaphorIntegrativeScienceArtist Basma Kavanagh

4 yr university science degreeMSIT - courses 43Integrative SciencePATTERN & METAPHOR21

WEAVING- relationship- respect- reverence- reciprocity- ritual- repetition- responsibilityIntegrative Science

UN-WEAVING- data collection- analysis- interpretation- prediction- control Integrative Sciencere-weaving

patterns towardre-weaving

Where?within: CIHR–IAPH fundedcommunity-basedparticipatory action research projectIntegrative Health & Healing:co-learning our way to expandingwholeness through restoration ofrelationships with the land

“eco-centric”relational“bio-spiritual”sense of identity and self

“eco-centric”relational“bio-spiritual”sense of identity and selfThere are two central themesevident in youth suicide. Theyare, first, the young person’sdeep sense of inadequacy, andsecond, a loss of connection tothis world. Morrisseau 1999

Go into a forest, you see the birch, maple, pine.Look underground and all those trees are holdinghands. We as people must do the same.(late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder, and Healer Charlie Labrador)

learn togetherlearn the commonlearn from each otherCo-Learning

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectElders

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectUniversity Science Students

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectSpecial Guests

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectCommunity Organizations

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectCheryl Bartlett, PhDCRC in IntegrativeScience, UCCBLaurence Kirmayer, MD, Social& Transcultural Psychiatry,McGill UniversityJohn Jacono, PhDProf Nursing,St.F.X. & UCCBNancy Comeau, PhDPsychology,Dalhousie UniversitySherry Stewart, PhDPsychology,Dalhousie UniversityPat McGrath, PhD,CRC Pediatric Pain,Dalhousie University

community and university withinCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing project

Results … can weCIHR-IAPH funded Integrative Health & Healing projectexpress them intwo ways?1) “VIGOUR” LANGUAGE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------13242) “RIGOUR” LANGUAGE

“VIGOUR” LANGUAGE

“VIGOUR” LANGUAGEToqikutimk“Together we are growing”sunflowers

CONSIDER: “boundaries of identities”with which we try to order and constructscience, society, self, and sacred …very important in all culturesTrickstersCoyoteHermes

acknowledgments

Thank youWela’lioq