Deciding what and how to share Indigenous knowledge online: creating the Native Plants and Foods Curriculum Portal

Abstract

We are Indigenous knowledge holders, herbalists, academics, and community environmental health staff who have the honor and responsibility of curating and sharing knowledge about traditional plants and medicines. Together, we created the Native Plants and Foods Curriculum Portal. This online sharing platform increases accessibility to Indigenous knowledge that is vital to the wellbeing of our environment and all those within it. In this article, we tell our story to concurrently share the knowledge itself as well as the importance of respecting the knowledge and the responsibility of holding that knowledge.

Keywords

Indigenous education Indigenous knowledge Native plants and foods place-based education

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