VIDEO: "Indigenization" vs. Open Inquiry

Restoring the Sciences

National Association of Scholars

Does “indigenous knowledge” complement or conflict with open inquiry? Recent events, such as the popular belief that Canadian indigenous residential schools kept mass graves and battles over the repatriation of archaeological artifacts and indigenous remains, have thrown the question into stark relief.

This event features Frances Widdowson, a Canadian political scientist who specializes in academic freedom issues, indigenous affairs, and identity politics in universities. Widdowson has received many threats, public and private, for her skeptical comments on the “unmarked” graves controversy. The most public affair saw a mob of students disrupt her speech during a scheduled lecture at the University of Lethbridge.

This event is moderated by J. Scott Turner of the National Association of Scholars.


Photo by Tandem X Visuals on Unsplash

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