<div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Indigenous Knowledge Leads a Worldwide Voyage</font></b><br><br>Posted: 06/05/2014 5:26 pm EDT<br><br>In the span of history, in the rise and fall of great kingdoms, in the measurement of evolution, the last two millennia is but a blink in the culmination of years, yet much of what we know, how we teach, what we legislate and how we operate today as humans is primarily influenced by the setbacks and advances in the last two thousand years.<br>
<br>Certainly the last 21 centuries of knowledge, knowhow and life continue to influence much of what is done today. To Western practices and beliefs, the concept of indigenous knowledge -- the collection and utilization of traditional practices and knowledge acquired through oral history, stories, chants and dances -- may still be a difficult source to rely on as qualitative and quantitative research or application. In the Pacific, however, indigenous knowledge influences many sectors of life for much of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia and is often a source or an agent of pride.<br>
<br>In Hawaiʻi, the northernmost point of Polynesia, indigenous knowledge has been the impetus of a renaissance of various forms over the last five decades for native Hawaiians. Reconnecting ourselves to our mother tongue, our chants and song, a conscientiousness of our socioeconomic and political standings have provided a cumulative movement of the strengthening of our indigeneity.<br>
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