ABSTRACT
This chapter examines omission as a form of microaggression, specifically the omission of Indigenous Science. The chapter argues that the Third Space provides a venue for addressing the omission of Indigenous ways of doing science and knowing the world not only in classrooms predominated by Indigenous peoples, but also in all classrooms that are innately invested in the human endeavour. The Third Space is the liminal space between two disparate cultures that permits relationships between teachers and students to form. One of the products of the intercultural space is the integration of Indigenous Science (IS) and Western Modern Science (WMS). The Third Space is a border, but not one that necessarily or primarily aims at crossing Indigenous science makers and doers into the hallowed realms of Western Science. Instead, the Third Space practices science in its purest form as an endeavour of curiosity which seeks the validity, reliability, and utility of all the ways through which Humankind comes to know about the world, can come to know the world, and the possible relationships between these.
