Indigenous Knowledge as Science (from YouTube)

The speaker, Albert Wiggan, comes from...

• Western Australia

• South Australia

• Queensland

• New South Wales

Answer explanation

Albert grew up in Western Australia. He mentions the state by name, the city of Perth (the capital) and the Kimberley region.

He says that he needed to do something about the bad environmental impacts he saw due to:

• capitalism, consumption and greed

• climate change

• bad weather

• poverty

Answer explanation

Albert says that he saw the environmental impacts due to capitalism, consumption and greed.

Albert says that ______________________________________ should be recognised as science because it comes from the same things: OBSERVATION, EXPERIMENTATION, ANALYSIS.

• indigenous knowledge

• non-indigenous knowledge

• indigenous spiritualism

• indigenous stories

Answer explanation

Albert says that indigenous knowledge was arrived at the same way that modern science was.

Albert says that indigenous knowledge and science need to come together because we are facing a threat, which is...

• climate change

• pollution

• global cooling

• the Martians

Answer explanation

Albert says that the threat is CLIMATE CHANGE.

94% of the Kimberley region is...

• indigenous owned

• government owned

• sand

• jungle

Answer explanation

94% of the Kimberley region is under traditional native title.

Indigenous knowledge of Australia goes back....

• 60,000 years

• 200,000 years

• 3,000 years

• 200 years

Answer explanation

Albert says that indigenous knowledge & practices in Australia have existed for 60,000 years.

Albert says that indigenous knowledge of the environment is valuable to science because...

• it's based on sustainable, stable practices

• it's magical

• it's wrong

• it costs a lot of money

Answer explanation

Indigenous practices are sustainable and do not stress the environment like modern Western practices.

what word does Albert use to describe "what we leave behind" for future generations?

• Legacy

• History

• Capitalism

• Anarchy

Answer explanation

"Legacy" is what you leave behind to pass on to the next lot of people.