Editing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Science (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)''' — The cumulative body of knowledge, practices, and beliefs about the relationship between living beings and their environment, evolved by adaptive processes and handed down through generations.
* '''Two-Eyed Seeing''' — (Mi'kmaw Elder Albert Marshall). The approach of learning to see from one eye with the strengths of indigenous knowledge and from the other with the strengths of Western science — using both together.
* '''Biocultural Diversity''' — The parallel diversity of biological and cultural/linguistic diversity — the world's most biodiverse regions correlate strongly with indigenous language diversity.
* '''The Nagoya Protocol (2010)''' — The international agreement on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources — addressing bioprospecting and biopiracy of indigenous knowledge.
* '''Land Back''' — The movement for the return of indigenous lands — connecting epistemological sovereignty to territorial sovereignty.
* '''Oral Tradition''' — The primary vehicle for transmitting TEK — stories, songs, ceremonies, and practice-based learning rather than written text.
* '''Bioprospecting vs. Biopiracy''' — Bioprospecting: the legal discovery of biological resources for commercial use. Biopiracy: exploitation of indigenous knowledge without consent or benefit-sharing.
* '''Ethnoecology''' — The scientific study of how different cultural groups perceive and interact with their environments.
* '''Fire Management''' — Indigenous controlled burning practices — used for millennia in Australia and the Americas — now being reintegrated into contemporary land management as evidence accumulates of their ecological effectiveness.
* '''Indicator Species''' — Species whose presence, absence, or abundance indicates the health of an ecosystem — TEK often identifies indicator species decades before Western ecology does.
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