Dialogue 4: Resources for further reading

October's dialogue, "Two-Eyed Seeing and Beyond," brought together speakers Elder Albert Marshall, and Drs Jesse Popp, Andrea Reid and Deborah McGregor, in dialogue with moderator Jacquie Miller, MA, to discuss the gift of understanding through multiple perspectives.

There was enthusiastic interest from participants for a list of resources / reading materials the panelists would recommend to learn more about understanding across ways of knowing, including through Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing, Gä•sweñta’/Two-Row Wampum, and the Dish with One Spoon Wampum.

We are grateful to our speakers and participants for their contributions to building this list, and pleased to be able to share that list with you below. 



Two-Eyed Seeing and Beyond: Reading List



On bridging knowledge systems in the aquatic sciences:

  1. McGregor, D.M.D., 2008. Linking traditional ecological knowledge and western science: Aboriginal perspectives form the 2000 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 28(1), pp.139-158. Link.

  2. Reid, A.J., Eckert, L.E., Lane, J.F., Young, N., Hinch, S.G., Darimont, C.T., Cooke, S.J., Ban, N.C. and Marshall, A., “Two‐Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management. Fish and Fisheries. Link

  3. Reid et al. (2020): “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management 

  4. Wong et al. (2020): Towards reconciliation: 10 Calls to Action to natural scientists working in Canada

For researchers seeking to decolonize research, aquatic or otherwise: 

  1. Cajete, G., 2000. Native science: Natural laws of interdependence. Clear Light Pub. Link.

  2. Wilson, S., 2008. Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood Publishing. Link.

  3. Kovach, M., 2010. Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts. University of Toronto Press. Link.

  4. Smith, L.T., 2012. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Zed Books Ltd. Link.

  5. McGregor, Restoule & Johnston (2018). Indigenous research. Theories, Practices, and Relationships. https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/indigenous-research 

  6. McGregor, D., Restoule, J.P. and Johnston, R. eds., 2018. Indigenous research: Theories, practices, and relationships. Canadian Scholars’ Press. Link.

  7. Wong, C., Ballegooyen, K., Ignace, L., Johnson, M.J. and Swanson, H., 2020. Towards reconciliation: 10 Calls to Action to natural scientists working in Canada. FACETS, 5(1), pp.769-783. Link.

On interweaving knowledge systems:

  1. Battiste, M. and Henderson, J.Y., 2000. Protecting Indigenous knowledge and heritage: A global challenge. UBC Press. Link.

  2. Ransom, J.W. and Ettenger, K.T., 2001. ‘Polishing the Kaswentha’: a Haudenosaunee view of environmental cooperation. Environmental science & policy, 4(4-5), pp.219-228. Link.

  3. Bartlett, C., Marshall, M. and Marshall, A., 2012. Two-eyed seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2(4), pp.331-340. Link.

  4. Ford & Martinez, 2000, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ecosystem Science, and Environmental Management

  5. Kimmerer, R.W., 2012. Searching for synergy: integrating traditional and scientific ecological knowledge in environmental science education. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2(4), pp.317-323. Link.

  6. Kimmerer, R.W., 2013. Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. Milkweed Editions. Link.

  7. Kimmerer, R.W., 2013. The fortress, the river and the garden: A new metaphor for cultivating mutualistic relationship between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge. In Contemporary studies in environmental and Indigenous pedagogies (pp. 49-76). Brill Sense. Link.

  8. Latulippe, N., 2015. Bridging parallel rows: Epistemic difference and relational accountability in cross-cultural research. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 6(2). Link

  9. Johnson, J.T., Howitt, R., Cajete, G., Berkes, F., Louis, R.P. and Kliskey, A., 2016. Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods. Sustainability Science, 11(1), pp.1-11. Link.

  10. McGregor (2002): Traditional ecological knowledge and the two—row wampum

  11. May-Derbyshire (2019). Two-Eyed Seeing- Trauma-wise Curriculum-Siksikees’tsuhkoom (Blackfoot Lands) & Huma Ecology. 

On bridging knowledge systems beyond aquatic sciences:

  1. Ermine, W. (2007). The ethical space of engagement, Indigenous Law Journal/Volume 6

  2. Reo, N.J. and Whyte, K.P., 2012. Hunting and morality as elements of traditional ecological knowledge. Human Ecology, 40(1), pp.15-27. Link.

  3. Reo, N.J., Whyte, K.P., McGregor, D., Smith, M.A. and Jenkins, J.F., 2017. Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 13(2), pp.58-68. Link.

  4. Martin, D. H. (2012). Two-eyed seeing: a framework for understanding indigenous and non-indigenous approaches to indigenous health research. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 44(2), 20–42. 

  5. Nelson, M.K. and Shilling, D. eds., 2018. Traditional ecological knowledge: learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability. Cambridge University Press. Link.

  6. Popp, J.N., Priadka, P., Young, M., Koch, K. and Morgan, J., 2020. Indigenous Guardianship and moose monitoring: weaving Indigenous and Western ways of knowing. Human–Wildlife Interactions, 14(2), p.17. Link.

Online resources and websites:

  1. Yarn Australia: https://www.yarnaustralia.com/ YARN Australia is a Social Enterprise focused on creating relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and non-Indigenous Australians by intentionally connecting with individuals, communities, schools and organisations across the country.)

  2. Earth to Tables Legacies: https://earthtotables.org/  (rethinking our food systems, stories from food activists across Turtle island, food sovereignty: “At the core of food sovereignty are ways of knowing, being and acting in the world that value organic and cyclical processes, represent a holistic view of nature, and acknowledge the interrelationship of all the elements that sustain life.”)

  3. Andrea Reid, Fisheries Scientist (from Nisga'a community): interview https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/feb-15-agriculture-moving-north-arrokoth-s-secrets-the-microbiome-for-flight-and-more-1.5463847/bringing-two-eyed-seeing-indigenous-knowledge-and-science-to-fisheries-conservation-1.5463853 

  4. Albert Marshall explaining the framework of two-eyed seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNVewjgKxI (taking the best of both worlds and bringing them together to learn from each other, Netukulimk- Mik’maq word for sustainability, where do our sources of life come from? the Forests, how do we take that gift that’s been lifted to us by the creator without compromising the land? We have to realize and accept that we are not superior beings in order for the next generations to be given a chance to maintain their relation to the land, our source of life)

  5. Dr. Alexandra King’s work at the University of Saskatchewan in Indigenous Health and Wellness (citizen of the Nipissing First Nation): https://medicine.usask.ca/profiles/department-of-medicine/saskatoon/general-internal-medicine/a-king.php#About (using the two-eyed seeing framework and also writing about ethical space, focus on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV/HCV co-infections)

  6. Dr. James Makokis, Cree from the Saddle Lake First Nation in Northern Alberta, Canada's Two Spirit, Diversity, Indigenous Health and First Nation Expert: http://speakerscanada.com/james-makokis/ 

  7. Dr. Deborah McGregor, CRC in Indigenous Environmental Justice (or injustice), at York U.: https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/mcgregor-deborah/  See her project, The Indigenous Environmental Justice Project: https://iejproject.info.yorku.ca/ 

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