ABSTRACT

Semali and Kincheloe stress the need for both an articulation and understanding of indigenous knowledge. Yet, to examine indigenous knowledge in isolation is to perpetuate a paradigm contrary to most indigenous knowledge. That is, to begin to understand indigenous knowledge it is imperative to not objectify it, but rather to understand as well, how hegemony, status quo, intellectual authority, and historical amnesia have combined to create an atmosphere that so readily refuses to consider knowledge not derived from within a closed system.