Ancestral Science

The Ancestral Science Podcast was grateful to speak with the absolutely lovely and talented LilyMarleen Uta’i, who is first generation Samoan, grew up in Hawai’i, currently living in He’eia Valley. We chatted about relational body measurement, aggressive & invasive species, waking up the kalo patches, our favourite smells, ancestral knowledges of Kalo, the significance of “just one breathe- just one moment” that has the ability to can set you on your path, and paana... the pulse that connects us all.

Donation, on behalf of Lily, was made to Papahana Kuaola

Check out the SHOWNOTES and our WEBSITE for some great educational resources, previous episodes, or a teaser of links below...

Additional LINKS:
-“Ethnomathematics Solves Real World Problems” (Ancestral Science Podcast, with Dr. Linda Furuto) (SPOTIFY, APPLE)
-“E lele le Toloa, Ae Ma’au i le Vai: Returning Home Through Hawai’i, Samoa, and Ethnomathematics” (article, LilyMarleen Uta’i, 2025)
- "Ethnomathematics Curriculum Resources (Hawai'i based)"

Thanks to Emil Starlight, THE 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

Take off your socks and shoes, ground yourself with the heartbeat of the Land beneath you, and join me in welcoming LilyMarleen Uta’i
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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!
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

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.
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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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The Ancestral Science Podcast thought we needed some Auntie Laughs, so we reconnected with Melissa Roberts and Emily Kerton, Indigenous educators weaving knowledges and Land-based science into the Ontario curriculum.
This is the SECOND part, of the Auntie Laugh-based episode. If you haven't listened to part one, released on January 19th, maybe go check that out first. But if you already have...are you ready for some more knowledge, stories, science, and laughs?

In this episode, the Ancestral Science Podcast reconnected with Melissa Roberts and Emily Kerton, Indigenous educators weaving knowledges and Land-based science into the Ontario curriculum. We learn about the importance patience & humility within education and knowledge, bird goggles, "suspension of disbelief", sacrificing your ego, "the third deer", falling acorns, and how NOT to use the faciliTREES.

Check out the SHOWNOTES in this episode for some great educational resources. AND....you HAVE TO stay tuned to the end for an absolute TREAT in the form of "a trifecta of poop stories" that will surly induce facial and stomach laughter cramps, as well as a hilarious LIGHTNING ROUND!

Thanks to Emil Starlight for the seamless editing, videography, and audio. 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 here.
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