Sentences with phrase «indigenous plant knowledge»
Walking Tour: Unsettled Sites Saturday, May 28, 2016, 1 pm SFU Gallery, Burnaby Reading and Walking Tour of Burnaby Mountain with Cease Wyss, Adam Gold, and Valeen Jules who will discuss the intersections of Indigenous plant knowledge and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline protests.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Rogin Wall Kimmerer — Book discussion.
By passing on this knowledge, we not only empower our customers, we help to preserve and promote traditional and indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge of medicinal and aromatic plants and their uses.
The exhibition includes Subhankar Banerjee's epic photographs of migratory caribou in northern Alaska, Fernando Palma Rodríguez's animatronic Monarch butterflies, restoring life to a threatened species, Abel Rodriquez's exquisite drawings of plants, recording indigenous environmental knowledge passed down through generations, and Paulo Nazareth's delicate installations of materials collected during his journey, on foot, between Belo Horizonte and New York City.
The supposed discovery and subsequent naming and cataloguing of plants disregarded and ultimately obliterated existing indigenous names and botanical knowledge as the Linnean system of classification with its particular European rationality was imposed.
The defensive protection is less controversial, where advocates of traditional knowledge protection are trying to stop people from acquiring IP rights over traditional knowledge — for example, if a pharmaceutical company goes into an indigenous community, learns about the use of a certain plant for treatment of disease, does a little more research, and then patents the knowledge.
Indigenous traditional knowledge generally means traditional practices and culture and the knowledge of plants and animals and of their methods of propagation.