Lisa Lone Fight: Intellectual property of Native women panel topic at UN
On Thursday March 8, 2012 a discussion of indigenous women’s intellectual property and bio-piracy will take place as part of a parallel event to the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
This forum will specifically address protecting the intellectual, cultural and scientific property of indigenous women. We will discuss issues such as the difference between the indigenous and western concepts of ownership, bio-piracy and the disproportionate impact each has on indigenous women. I am especially honored to have been asked to sit on this panel because my commitment to this issue is personal, professional, cultural and historical. Full Story on Buffalo's Fire site
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In a battle between culture and technology, bet on culture. Lisa Lone Fight participated in a discussion on the centrality of culture in Native societies as it relates to "green" technology and other issues. From the report: "... it soon became evident, for the Indian participants cultural resilience was the overriding concern. Culture was the touchstone to which the Roundtable discussion returned time and time again in all definitions of resilience." |
Indigenous Science: A unique way of seeing, learning, knowing, teaching
There is a science derived from place; from cycles and seasons and living with the Earth, water, wind and sky. It is a science of close observation; a science of recording, documenting and experiencing. It is a science of experimentation and creation and perhaps most uniquely of all, considering Western science and its "rush to the future," it is a science of tradition. It has become known as indigenous science, and in the 21st century this may be the most critical science of all.
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EXPLORING INDIGENOUS SPACES"Native people are tied to geography; we are a people of place. The very nature of being “indigenous” springs from sacred connections to specific locations. We are also however people of space and image and time. We constantly seek perspectives and information about the world that explain it and the beings within it. Our culture heroes go to buttes and mountains and often "take to the air" in search of this knowledge. Stories of "Remote Sensing" pervade our cultural realities, making spatial science our business for thousands of millenia. .. ." (Excerpt from Lisa's Upcoming Article on Remote Sensing)
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