traditional knowledge

[truh-dish-uh-nuhl nahl-ij]

noun

1. skills, knowledge, and practices that are passed down through generations, rather than being taught through official means or formal education, and which are often associated with specific cultural identities.

Example Sentences

“Land back means giving the land back to its original people with no strings attached. Let them provide their traditional knowledge to heal the land, the environment.”

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According to Armstrong, settler-colonial efforts to systematically separate Indigenous peoples from their land and suppress traditional knowledge have obscured the role humans played in shaping the landscape.

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The Blue Parks network promotes biodiversity and sustainable management in marine protected areas, and Kitasoo Xai’xais leaders have vowed to pursue those aims using traditional knowledge and the latest marine science.

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This approach is beginning to change, however, as a new generation of Inuit scientists, activists and conservationists connect traditional knowledge systems with scientific methods.

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“Each community has its own traditional knowledge,” said Alwas, who belongs to the Toda tribe.

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