Native Science

Summary

Gregory Cajete’s study of Native science, from astronomy to healing. Where Western method isolates a thing to understand it, Native thinking understands it through its relationships; that grasp of what binds natural forces and living beings together, its publisher says, has let Indigenous peoples live in balance with the land for millennia, and can help in today’s environmental crisis.

Rationale

If nothing exists independently, as interbeing holds, then nothing can be understood in isolation either. Cajete’s Native science starts there: interbeing as a way of knowing as well as being.