We were grateful to speak with Karen Colbert, data scientist, department chair, Tribal College Faculty leader, advocate for culturally grounded STEM and AI integration specialist about finding your identity within mathematics, translating and code switching in the math classroom, the pie of DEI, teaching AI to embrace failure, not giving up on the ethics within AI, and pushing back against the default systems of confirmation bias.

Check out Karen’s TEDx talk, released on YouTube in the coming months, the title is “The Most Dangerous Lie A.I Keeps Repeating”

Check out the SHOWNOTES and our WEBSITE (www.relationalsciencecircle.com) for some great educational resources.

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE talented Multimedia Podcast Producer As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

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Grab a cup of tea in your fav mug and prepare yourself to learn how to be a little less afraid of AI, with the talented and TEDx speaker, Karen Colbert.

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The pod is in the midst of planning and recording some really interesting episodes, so to focus on those we thought we would re-release one of our fav's... it is also a little teaser for the upcoming ones... So enjoy, and go learn some science from the stars...

This episode was recorded on an early Spring morning back in 2024, here on the Lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Tsuut’ina Nation, and Îethka Nakoda First Nation, and more recently the Otipemisiwak Métis . As we patiently waited for the First Thunder of the season , we got to learn from Wilfred "The Star Guy" Buck, from Opaskwayak Cree Nation and Siksika Astrophysicist Rob Cardinal about the science and stories of the recent Solar Eclipse, the reverence and silence within the darkness of totality, the connection between the alignment, states of matter, and ceremonies, protocols of NOT LOOKING at these significant cosmic events, the Creation of "Tipis and Telescopes," the three-body problem, the North Star and moon cycles, and the origin of the Thunderbirds.

SHOWNOTES: For all you curious humans and educators, here is a link for the shownotes, which as always, has a plethora of videos, links, resources, to learn more and support. There are soooo many for this episode, have fun!

Thanks to Emil Starlight, the pod's talented multimedia podcast producer. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that opening tune!

Take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated.

And if you want to support the pod, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at www.relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

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It was a windy late spring morning back in 2024, just before Summer Solstice, and the Ancestral Science Podcast got to record this episode ontop of Nosehill Park in the heart (or nose, haha) of Calgary, in Treaty 7.

We were grateful to speak with Brendon Many Bears, from Siksika Nation, who, alongside Blackfoot Elders and Knowledge Keepers have been working alongside Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer of the University of Calgary Archaeology Field School & Public Archaeology Program to learn more about Ancestral Blackfoot knowledges within the stones and earth of Nosehill. We learned about the cultural importance of look out points and "tipi" rings, vision quests and balance, reconciliation archaeology, the importance of ceremony within science, and experiencing the Blackfoot scientific stories of these Lands.

University of Calgary Archaeological Field School and Public Archaeology Program:

Dig site: EgPm-143

CTV Article: U of C students, staff partner with city to unearth ancient Indigenous belongings at Nose Hill Park

CBC Article: What was life like for pre-contact Blackfoot people?

It was created with the support of TELUS Storyhive.

Thanks to Emil Starlight for his talents in editing, videography, and audio. As well, Walter White Bear, Sharon Foster, and Emil for that epic opening tune!

Please take a moment to like, share, follow, and rate, it is much appreciated. And if you want to support the pod further, check out some unique Indigenous Science MERCH at relationalsciencecircle.com/shop

If you are a curious education, or want more information, check out our website https://www.relationalsciencecircle.com/

WIthout further ado, the Ancestral Science Podcast welcomes BRENDON MANY BEARS

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