Challenges for Indigenous Knowledge Limitations of Indigenous Knowledge and the

Did Chief Seattle say, “All things are connected”? More so than many other disciplines, indigenous knowledge has to contend with popular and academic myths about traditional peoples. Making sense of the contradictory evidence and providing a coherent picture of the real signifi cance of traditional ecological knowledge for contemporary issues, such as biodiversity conservation, requires the development of a theory of indigenous knowledge that can account for changes in human-nature relations over time.