Science for Breakfast with Hilding Neilson

Astronomy has been practised on the land we call North America since time immemorial and the peoples across this land had and have their own ways of understanding the sky and the Universe. In this talk, Prof. Hilding Neilson will discuss Indigenous methods of science and how sky stories reflect observations and knowledge of different peoples. He will show how these methods are related to constructing knowledge and apply these axioms to the current questions of where life is in the Milky Way Galaxy. He will also show how these methods add to our current understanding of the Drake Equation and conclude by discussing how these ideas impact the cultural discussion of space exploration and colonization.