I also refer to these as Indigenous science because they embody our ways of knowing that are rooted from ancestral knowledge and valid sciences. I personally do not like to use traditional ecological knowledge, even though sometimes this is the only way we can refer to our Indigenous knowledge systems, because to me, traditional ecological knowledge places us within past contexts. It is important to note that the same way our environments have adapted, our Indigenous knowledge systems have adapted, and this is why I view it as a science in itself—Indigenous science.
