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The reconciliation laboratory? Joseph Gazing Wolf, Ellen Simmons, Paulette Blanchard, Lydia L Jennings, Danielle D Ignace, Dominique M David-Chavez, Deondre Smiles, Michelle Montgomery, Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, Melissa K Nelson, Diana Doan-Crider, Linda Black Elk, Luke Black Elk, Gwen Bridge, Ann Marie Chischilly, Kevin Deer, Kathy DeerinWater, Trudy Ecoffey, Judith Vergun, Daniel Wildcat, James Rattling Leaf, ‘A path to reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial epistemologies’, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2025

29Apr25

Abstract: There is a movement across settler–colonial institutions of education and research to engage with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges. Many settler and Indigenous governments are pursuing pathways to move forward together to address global problems such as climate change. However, given the pervasive history of exploitation and displacement of Indigenous communities, this development has caused some concern among Indigenous leaders and scholars. At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Montreal, Canada, the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the ESA hosted a 2-day workshop. This gathering of 21 Indigenous environmental scientists included scholars from across the career and professional spectrum. By consensus, workshop participants identified three emergent themes—Engage, Heal, and Reconcile—that provide a pathway toward reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial ways of knowing. This path allows for an ever-greater sharing of institutional resources and power toward a co-equal interfacing of Indigenous Knowledges and settler science.


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