Decentering Western Science

By Haylee Backs, Sonia Santos, and Abby Whittington AUDIO FILE Western science often claims objectiveness, correctness, and “authenticity” however there is a long running history of violence and subversion of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of knowing in the pursuit

Listening to Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Reimagine Vassar’s Relationship with Land and Other Beings

By Jake Mier, Jake Kaplan, and Sonia Santos   “…Native people were the first ecologists, as the mythologies, understandings, and technical knowledge were always directly tied to specific ecologies, or specific regions, plants, and animals. The knowledge base itself becomes