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	Indigenous Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Indigenous knowledge is local knowledge unique to a given culture or society.
		Indigenous knowledge is an immensely valuable resource that provides humankind with insights on how communities have interacted with their changing environment.
		Indigenous knowledge systems have never been systematically recorded in written form and therefore are not readily accessible to agricultural researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers.
	www.ciesin.org /TG/AG/iksys.html (398 words)

	Module 5 - Indigenous Knowledge for the Environment
		This knowledge is passed from generation to generation, usually by word of mouth and cultural rituals, and has been the basis for agriculture, food preparation, health care, education, conservation and the wide range of other activities that sustain a society and its environment in many parts of the world for many centuries.
		Indigenous knowledge is stored in culture in various forms, such as traditions, customs, folk stories, folk songs, folk dramas, legends, proverbs, myths, etc. Use of these cultural items in schools as resources or tools for environmental education can be very effective in bringing the environment alive for the pupils.
		If indigenous knowledge is given a place in the school curriculum, it would encourage pupils to learn from their parents, grand-parents and other adults in the community, and to appreciate and respect their knowledge.
	www.ens.gu.edu.au /ciree/LSE/mod5.htm (10715 words)

	INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE RAINFOREST
		Indigenous knowledge is currently flavour of the month: both economic commodity and political slogan.
		Such empirical knowledge of plants and animals as I have referred to does not exist apart from a broader socially-informed understanding of the world, in some kind of hermetically sealed vacuum from which other aspects of culture are excluded.
		How that knowledge is apprehended by people will be determined by culturally relative coordinates of sense perception which sometimes deviate sharply from the expectations of scientifically-trained personnel; for example, the significance of olfactory and textual stimuli compared with the purely visual.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Rainforest/malon.html (5116 words)

	Database of Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
		IK can refer to the knowledge belonging to a specific ethnic group, for example: ‘Indigenous knowledge is the local knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society.
		Indigenous information systems are dynamic, and are continually influenced by internal creativity and experimentation as well as by contact with external systems.
		The aim of this database is to encourage researchers and policy-makers to incorporate indigenous knowledge into their project proposals, feasibility studies, implementation plans and project assessments, and to take indigenous knowledge and practices into account in all activities affecting local communities.
	www.unesco.org /most/bpindi.htm (922 words)

	Biological Diversity and Indigenous Knowledge (Research Paper 17 1997-98)
		Indigenous peoples are custodians and stewards of their lands and environments, and have been entrusted by ancestral charters to care for these through successive generations.
		Systems of knowledge, and their products and expressions are vital to ensuring the continuity of Indigenous cultures, and are important vehicles for enabling Indigenous peoples to adapt their societies and cultures to introduced societies, cultures and technologies.(14) By maintaining cultural diversity, recognition and protection of Indigenous knowledge can also benefit environmental conservation and sustainable management.
		Indigenous knowledge of medicinal and other plants and practices is a significant contributor to scientific research and development in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foodstuffs, agricultural products, and a wide range of other biologically based products and processes.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp17.htm (12143 words)

	Home - CEFIKS
		Indigenous knowledge is embedded in community practices, institutions, relationships and rituals.
		It is also necessary to protect, preserve and utilize indigenous knowledge to benefit its owners and the communities where it is practiced.
		Indigenous knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth will cease to exist unless it is formally documented and preserved.
	www.cfiks.org (493 words)

	NRF - Indigenous Knowledge Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) refer to the complex set of knowledge and technologies existing and developed around specific conditions of populations and communities indigenous to a particular geographic area.
		The need to reclaim and establish indigenous knowledge that has been suppressed is critical because of the instrinsic value of the knowledge itself as well as the important part it can play in restoring individual and collective dignity and confidence in a society.
		Some of this understanding is to be found in the indigenous knowledge systems that relate to the treatment of disease through the connections with spirituality and the science of herbs and plants, on the one hand, and animal products, on the other.
	www.nrf.ac.za /focusareas/iks (1042 words)

	Inuit Indigenous Knowledge and Science in the Arctic
		The lack of common understanding about the meaning of traditional knowledge is frustrating for those who advocate or attempt in practical ways to recognize and use traditional knowledge.
		Knowledge is the condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association.
		Traditional knowledge offers a view of the world, aspirations, and an avenue to 'truth', different from those held by non-aboriginal people whose knowledge is based largely on European philosophies.
	www.carc.org /pubs/v20no1/inuit.htm (2430 words)

	CIESIN Information Cooperative - Organizational Guide - CIKARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		CIKARD concentrates on indigenous knowledge systems (such as local soil taxonomies), decision-making systems (such as knowledge of which crops are best suited to particular types of soils), organizational structures (such as farmers problem-solving groups), and innovations (such as local methods for pest control).
		In the fall of 1988, a documentation unit and library was formally established as a part of CIKARD, to serve the Center in its effort to record, analyze, and disseminate indigenous knowledge for agriculture and rural development.
		One major objective of the unit is to identify and acquire all relevant literature and ethnographic descriptions on indigenous knowledge and associated disciplines from worldwide sources.
	www.ciesin.org /IC/cikard/CIKARD.html (330 words)

	The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge
		The Tukano have great knowledge of their environment and have preserved the natural vegetation of the forests for fisheries maintenance instead of clearing the land for agriculture.
		They have considerable knowledge of their natural environment, and under conditions of change they are by far the best conservationists in the region.
		Through all of the hardships faced, the Kuna have showed the world how important indigenous knowledge is. They have been successful in keeping their cultural autonomy intact and have proved culture is a strong basis for maintaining a balanced ecosystem and the sustainable use of natural resources.
	www.mnh.si.edu /biodiversity/aislynn1.htm (4886 words)

	Tebtebba Home Page
		The UNPFII and the UNDPI are launching an indigenous children art competition for the design of a logo/visual identifier for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
		Delegates to the Philippine Mindanao Forum on Indigenous Peoples’ Education and Learning Systems, held August 15 - 17, 2005, collectively affirm and uphold that education is a basic human right.
		Leonard Tobiko, a young Kenyan Masai elder, never heard about the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which is supposed to help protect him and other indigenous peoples elsewhere from being deprived of their land and resources.
	www.tebtebba.org (580 words)

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		"Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Commons: The Case of an Indonesian Subak." Presented at "Reinventing the Commons," the fifth annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, May 24-28, 1995, Bodoe, Norway.
		"Indigenous Knowledge and Drought in the Arid Zone of Rajasthan, India: Weather Prediction as a Means to Cope with a Hazardous Climate." Professur für Forstpolitik und Forstökonomie, Departement Wald- und Holzforschung, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich.
		Chernela, J. "Indigenous Fishing in the Neotropics: The Tukanoan Uanano of the Blackwater Uaupes River Basin in Brazil and Colombia." Interciencia 10(2):78-86.
	www.indiana.edu /~workshop/wsl/indigbib.html (13966 words)

	Indian Institute of Forest Management
		Bibliography of sources related to indigenous resource management, particularly indigenous agroforestry and common property resources.
		CIRAN selected 27 Best Practices in the field of Indigenous Knowledge for inclusion in the UNESCO-MOST database.
		These best practices are an illustration of the use of IK in cost-effective and sustainable strategies which may help poor people in their daily struggle for survival.
	www.iifm.org /databank/ef/ethnoforestry.html (592 words)

	Register of Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
		Sustainable domestication of indigenous fruit trees: the interaction between soil and biotic resources in some drylands of southern Africa.
		Improving tassa planting pits — using indigenous soil and water conservation techniques to rehabilitate degraded plateaus in the Tahoua region of Niger.
		Aymara Kuru, the ancient technique of weaving belts, taught to displaced indigenous children by indigenous women from the communities of rural Ayacucho.
	www.unesco.org /most/bpikreg.htm (766 words)

	SciDev.Net
		Awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge — particularly its potential contribution to sustainable development — is growing at a time when such knowledge is being threatened as never before.
		But, as many countries with well-established — and much used — systems of indigenous medicine are now realising, the integration of traditional medicine into the modern health infrastructure can be a way to get the best of both worlds.
		Click here for an overview of indigenous knowledge, and how it relates to modern science.
	www.scidev.net /dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem&Dossier=7 (346 words)

	IOL: Zambia moves to protect indigenous knowledge
		"Countries need to be in charge of their own resources, and to recognise the role indigenous knowledge and genetic resources play in the community," says committee member Godfrey Mwila, a senior programme officer for conservation at the Southern Africa Development Community gene bank in Lusaka.
		Zambia's traditional healers were reluctant to share their knowledge for fear of it being commercially exploited or even patented in other countries, he added.
		Read more about indigenous knowledge and intellectual property in SciDev.Net's indigenous knowledge and intellectual property dossiers.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1111390174449Z525 (486 words)

	Indigenous Knowledge Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		SciDev.Net Indigenous Knowledge Dossier, the indigenous knowledge dossier critically addresses key issues relating to the potential contribution of indigenous knowledge to science and development.
		Best practices in the field of Indigenous Knowledge, illustrations of the use of indigenous knowledge in cost-effective and sustainable survival strategies.
		International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in Africa and their Relevance for Sustainable Development.
	www.ik-pages.net (173 words)

	Indigenous Knowledge Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Please refer to www.ik-pages.net for background information and news about indigenous knowledge worldwide.
		Nuffic's Indigenous Knowledge Unit was responsible for maintaining this web site from 1992 until 2004.
		Nuffic has transferred its activities in the field of indigenous knowledge to a consortium of southern organizations.
	www.nuffic.nl /ik-pages (140 words)

	IK- Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The ultimate objective of the website is to help mainstream indigenous/traditional knowledge into the activities of development partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor.
		These include a database on indigenous/traditional knowledge and practices with over 300 case studies and a series of "IK Notes" which present in some detail, locally driven solutions to complex issues.
		Working with governments and local partners, the Program has also begun to help mainstream the application of IK in World Bank projects and in national development programs.
	www.worldbank.org /afr/ik (255 words)

	Index of Indigenous Knowledge Resources on the Internet
		Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network (IBIN) [Can't connect 2/05/05]
		Indigenous Knowledge Resources in Information Technology, includes the virtual bead loom
		Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development (CIKARD)
	www.hanksville.org /NAresources/indices/NAknowledge.html (348 words)

	RCI
		His knowledge of the art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, cosmology, and ceremony of ancient Americans provide cultural and spiritual contexts of his paintings, music, and dance so that his audiences directly perceive the interconnectedness between all aspects of life and their foundations in the natural world.
		Johnny Moses, whose traditional name is Whis.stem.men.knee, or Walking Medicine Robe, is a traditional healer, an oral historian and bearer by permission of his elders of Native American songs, stories, Si.Si.Wiss medicine teachings and healing ceremonies of the Tulalip and Nootka of the Northwest Coast.
		His compelling storytelling, accented by gesture, song and drumming along with his knowledge of eight Native Northwest Coast languages keeps audiences of all ages engaged and hungry for more.
	www.rainbowchild.com /artists.html (958 words)

	Database of Indigenous Knowledge - Africa Region - The World Bank
		A reference is either made through a hyperlink, a bibliographic reference, to an organization or to an individual.
		Most importantly, this database is meant to grow through contributions and comments from users.
		Any visitor to this site is welcome to contribute information on effective indigenous practices, experiences or references to sources.
	www.worldbank.org /afr/ik/datab.htm (116 words)

	Guampedia - Guam's Online Encyclopedia
		His Ph.D. dissertation, “Tacking into Context,” focused on the implementation of American librarianship and programs in Micronesia in the midst of traditional systems and concepts of indigenous knowledge.
		His books, published by Greenwood Press, include Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific (selected by CHOICE for its Outstanding Academic Book List), Indigenous Literature of Oceania, and Micronesian Histories (with Dr. Karen Peacock).
		He was awarded the annual university-wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Research at the University of Guam for Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging.
	www.guampedia.com /biographies/nicholasGoetzfridt.htm (255 words)

	Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We now bring out a newsletter entitled the Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, published ten times a year.
		The Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor was a journal that served the international development community and all scientists who share a professional interest in indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSP).
		Nuffic-CIRAN in cooperation with the indigenous knowledge resource centres in various parts of the world, has two sections: articles and communications.
	www.nuffic.nl /ciran/ikdm (310 words)

	Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism
		Indigenous Women's Declaration at COP 7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Manukan Declaration
		The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.
		The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.
	www.ipcb.org (163 words)

	ANKN Site Index
		Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
		Culture, Chaos and Complexity: Catalysts for Change in Indigenous Education by Ray Barnhardt and Anagayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
		Indigenous Struggle for the Transformation of Education and Schooling
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /directory.html (943 words)

	Center for World Indigenous Studies Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Conference will focus on food, soil and environmental chemical connections to health.
		Despite prodigious efforts, each of these planned periods of development has failed.
		In addition to conventional political features- every country and key city- the map also features over one hundred prominent indigenous nations (e.g.
	www.cwis.org (464 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the African Diaspora
		National Research Foundation/ Indigenous Knowledge Systems (South Africa)
		Copyright © 2005 African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
	members.aol.com /afsci/africana.htm (805 words)

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