This post connects two recent programs from CBC Radio’s Ideas series that provide very helpful Indigenous perspectives on the history of encounters between Indigenous Americans and Europeans in the early modern era, and on the reorientation of knowledge about astronomy.
- The 5 April 2023 Ideas broadcast features a discussion between host Nahlah Ayed and British historian Caroline Dodds Pennock about her 2023 book On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (2023).
- The 21 April 2023 Ideas broadcast, “Perimeter Institute Conversations About Science and Identity,” features the research of Hilding Neilson on Indigenous (particularly Mi’kmaw) astronomy.