"Her knowledge of dressmaking is impressive.
Many non-American Indians have incorporated knowledge of Native American two-spirit traditions into their increasing acceptance of same-sex love, androgyny and transgender diversity.
Reports from the United States Agency for International Development and an environmental assessment memo from the Export-Import Bank show that the United States has had deep concerns about a lack of transparency, about environmental studies that are called shoddy or insufficient and a lack of knowledge of native groups in the region.
According to Nakashima et al., TEK is "the knowledge of Native people about their natural environment" (Nakashima 1993, 99).
Ethnography, which derives propositional knowledge of others from personal knowledge of native informants in long-term, often intimate relationships, raises these issues most acutely (Bell et al 1993; Leacock 1981).
In this case the knowledge of native people who have relied on plants as medicines for centuries must be followed [20].
Because these predictions have about the same level of accuracy as typical bioinformatics methods, and do not utilize information from databases of known native structures, this work opens up the possibility of predicting the structures of membrane proteins, synthetic peptides, or other foldable polymers, for which there is little prior knowledge of native structures.
Both sections show parallels between the practices of current Trinidad hunters and the indigenous knowledge of native South American groups.
Local knowledge, particularly in rural communities, and traditional knowledge of native peoples can provide valuable insights about ecological characteristics of a place, past conditions, and current changes.
As our biological knowledge of native networks and our ability to engineer new circuits has improved, it has become increasingly possible to blend these two strategies.
