“Two Eye Seeing” 24×30 Hand painted canvas

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Decolonization is not a process of returning to the past. It’s about reclaiming past traditions to heal while building a better future. This can be done by incorporating two eyed seeing.

Two-Eyed Seeing is the Guiding Principle brought into the Integrative Science co-learning journey by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall in Fall 2004.

Etuaptmumk is the Mi’kmaw word for Two-Eyed Seeing.

We often explain Etuaptmumk – Two-Eyed Seeing by saying it refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing … and learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.

Let’s bridge this gap and build relationship with one another and our land.