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Decolonization: STEM

List of resources on decolonization that support MCC Faculty, Educator, and Students

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Teaching Examples

Dawn Wiseman – Quebec (Bishop University) - Identifies relationships between erosion and the slaughter of buffalo herds on the prairies (and the subsequent removal of indigenous grasslands) as a way to forward the aims of colonial expansion, Indigenous genocide, treaty development, and industrial farming. Focuses on more healthy, sustaining systems and relationships Indigenous people.

Danya Glabau – NYU – Engineering Technology - Presents topics so students feel like they understand the terms of debate they might encounter, whether in the area of public global health, a graduate program in anthropology or STS.

Keora Flanary-Olayvar– University of Hawaii - Indigenous Science - Takes Indigenous approaches to science through reading works such as Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, by Gregory Cajete

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – UNH/Physics - Used the proposed 30-meter telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii as evidence of the importance of decolonizing science. the astronomers prioritized their science over the concerns of Indigenous peoples

Danielle N. Lee – Southern Illinois University - Illuminated early animal behavior scholars from underrepresented backgrounds whose narratives had been overlooked or erased in order to highlight their contributions to science and society that could be featured in biology lectures

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