Cosmic Serpent: Collaboration with Integrity

This book is a deliverable (requisite) of an NSF (National Science Foundation) grant to share the project outcomes and what we learned from the NSF grant project. This four-year NSF project was funded to provide professional development to museum educators about Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science in museums, with the goal of providing a culturally relevant way for Indigenous communities to connect to science. The name of this grant was “Cosmic Serpent: Bridging Native Ways of Knowing and Western Science in Museum Settings.”

This book is also a snapshot in time of this work in Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science in museums. That is, this book is a written document that describes our understandings of these science education concepts today, built on work done in the past, and constantly evolving with continued research into the future.