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"Learning Together": Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand Freshwater Mussel Health in the Lower Athabasca Region of Alberta, Canada

2019

Hopkins, D., Joly, T.L., Sykes, H., Waniandy, A., Grant, J., Gallagher, L., Hansen, L., Wall, K., Fortna, P., & Bailey, M.

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The authors describe a community-based participatory research approach that braided Indigenous Knowledge with Western Science to better understand the decrease in the population density of freshwater clams in the lower Athabasca region. They discuss the importance of prioritizing Indigenous Knowledge in research on issues that may not have been considered within Western knowledge systems and the need for shared decision-making to enable the practice of "learning together."

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"Learning Together": Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand Freshwater Mussel Health in the Lower Athabasca Region of Alberta, Canada.

Hopkins, D., Joly, T.L., Sykes, H., Waniandy, A., Grant, J., Gallagher, L., Hansen, L., Wall, K., Fortna, P., & Bailey, M. (2019). "Learning together": Braiding Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to understand freshwater mussel health in the Lower Athabasca Region of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(2), 315-336.

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