So I wanna talk today about traditional ecological knowledge. Well, thank you for that explanation, because I think it's important to recognize the differences and the many different tribes, and the richness of all of them.Ĭolleen: Yeah. But we are a distinct people with a culture and our own language.Ĭolleen: Great. And we got a lot of relatives, good relatives that we're thankful that we have. We are recognized as part of the Muscogee Nation. The Tsoyaha are a federally misrecognized tribe. So I always jokingly tell people, they've heard of federally-recognized tribes, they've heard of state-recognized tribes. But the Yuchis were never recognized independent of the Muscogee Nation or Creek Nation of Oklahoma. Although we know we're different, we have our own language, we share some things, quite a few things, as you might imagine, culturally, given we came from the same area, and our cultures were very much embedded in the places we called home. So we've never been recognized independent of the Muscogee people. And so, at the time of removal, we were really included as a part of this Creek Confederacy, the Muscogee Confederacy. We had really been hit by European diseases, victims of all the dysfunction that went along with the rum trade, and that kind of thing. And as you know from history, at the time of removal, we were pretty well decimated. The Yuchi, as we would refer to ourselves in our language, Tsoyaha, I am Tsoyaha, a Yuchi person, a Child or People of the Sun, we were one of the small groups of people nations that were in the Southeastern United States, along with Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees, Seminoles, and, obviously, our Muscogee relatives. Wildcat: Well, this is a.we could do a whole program on this, so I'll give you the short version. You're a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation.Ĭolleen: What would you like our listeners to know about the Yuchi people?ĭr. Wildcat: Well, thank you for the invitation.Ĭolleen: Yeah. and how we should never pass up the opportunity to celebrate nature and its beauty.Ĭolleen: Dr. He joined me to talk about people’s lived experiences and observations, TEK in concert with climate science, how much has been lost by the genocide and colonization and whitewashing of Indigenous people, culture, and language. He’s a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, through a twist of federal tribal classification fate that we’ll get into in our conversation. Wildcat is the co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, an author, and an accomplished scholar who writes about indigenous knowledge, technology, the environment, and education. And I feel even luckier that as a podcast host, I was able to get him to continue this conversation with me.ĭr. Daniel Wildcat, a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, speak about traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, earlier this summer. One such way is traditional ecological knowledge, the evolving knowledge acquired by indigenous and local peoples over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with the environment. And science can coexist and even complement these other ways of understanding our world. It’s just one way-that turns out to be pretty reliable. Colleen: I hope this doesn’t sound blasphemous from someone working at a science-based organization… but science isn’t the only way to make sense of the world.
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