Western Ways Of Knowing

Western Ways of knowing is significantly different than the Indigenous ways of knowing for several reasons. One is that Western ways use linear and step-by-step method. Further, the organization of knowledge depends on the preexisted laws. For example, to distinguish if it is living or nonliving, one would start with a hypothesis and go through the scientific methods and categorize it in such manner. This is an example of reductionism where everything is taken apart in small parts to distinguish certain things. This is different in Indigenous learning where everything is understood as a whole and everything starts within yourself. Rather than knowing from observation, it starts with the raw experience itself.
Another difference is that the