Now when we are discussing indigenous sky knowledge there's one feature that is really important that we have to acknowledge and that's the fact that things that happen here on earth are intrinsically connected to things that are happening up there in the sky and this is a fact that indigenous people knew and respected there's a saying what's on the land is reflected in the sky and what indigenous skies reflected on the land and that's really common across a lot of different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations that's what we're going to be exploring today in this lecture now it's quite different it's quite a different perspective, quite a different way of viewing the world to say how maybe we're used to with Western knowledge systems let's dive into this and look at it a little bit closer so here I attempted to break up just very briefly what say one story one piece of indigenous knowledge actually could look like and it can break down into these various components you know you can look at it through this lens and say okay we have the land knowledge over here we have the sky knowledge over here and then they further break down into different respective topics as well but what's really significant with indigenous knowledge is that all of these pieces of information they kind of packaged together and they all connected to each other so say if there is something that maybe is affecting a species a water species that is often linked to something that's happening on the land what's happening in the sky what's happening with another creature another say maybe even a plant you know all these different things combined to create indigenous knowledge and we actually see this this is actually a really efficient way of transmitting information right when we silo information off as we do in our Western systems it is a good technique and obviously we learn a lot from using that technique and and that's great but when we connect that information to something that it's related to and we we keep it intact with its relational information there's a lot more information to convey there and what indigenous knowledge systems do and what stories do is they package it all together now this is one example this is what I would call you know like a hierarchical flow chart nested flow chart and we see this type of this type of graph for this way of presenting information quite often in things like information technologies statistics it's commonly used and you know that shows us it's quite a useful way of transmitting information it's very similar to how multi-layered stories work as well in comparison where we silo things off we just kind of have these much neater packages I guess you know they're quite you know comprehensive in the little package but we don't have any of that relational information and that's very much what indigenous knowledge systems convey that interconnected information now as I've just mentioned our stories are packed with this type of interconnected knowledge so I thought it'd be good to take a bit of a closer look