Mohawk Mathematician Dr. Edward Doolittle, Kanyen’kehake from Six Nations, taught us about mathematics as medicine, the difference between global/Indigenous/and Western mathematics, how there are many ways to learn and understand math, connections between mathematics and the Creation Story, and the importance of bringing emotion and spirit back into mathematics.

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What is science to you? it is a misused and misunderstood term, often associated w scientific, standardized methods. Mathematics existed BEFORE proof

Applied Epistemology: connects science to us as humans/this is not positivism, not objectivism/this is the way we understand the world/science is about ourselves

Indigenous MathScience: local to human, land, community. The essence of teachings are taught and passed on through different traditions, customs, languages.

Global Math/Science: universal, w standard methods. culture removed. Can be taught the same anywhere in the world. “Western” mathematics is a misunderstood term and reinforces the mysteries of the East and rationality of the West; this term can other.

Alan Bishop: six universal activities which can be described as mathematical: COUNTING, LOCATING, MEASURING, DESIGNING, PLAYING, EXPLAINING

Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas): Can we be thankful for mathematics? Math begins with creation.

Math as Medicine by E. Doolittle

-Math -understanding the world & ourselves from different perspectives. How can mathematics contribute to wellness?

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address: remembering the water, fish, trees. where is mathematics?

Numbers led is back home-mathematics is first, it is ours, from the first moment of Creation

-like the waves on the shore, which give us the drum beat. math is being, creation, medicine

Math&Residential Schools

math was how they really got us! (residential school survivor)- it reinforces one right answer that increase control & decrease critical thinking. How do we stop the cycle of harm done by teaching math in this way?

4 Directions of Math

Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual

Ramanujan: Math & Spirituality

UPCOMING:

Math Bundle Project- June 2025

Tipis and Wind Tunnels- TBD 2025

Indigenous Mathematicians

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