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Indigenous astronomies and 'astro-colonialism'

“Indigenous astronomies speak to a connection to the land and to the people. And that knowledge has been here as long as people have been here,” explained Hilding Neilson, who is Mi’kmaw and a professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

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