Indigenous STEM Resources

This section highlights Indigenous resources within the STEM fields. This will include community groups for Indigenous STEM scholars as well.

AISES promotes the highest standards of education and professional excellence to widen the STEM workforce and grow sector support and highlights the geographic, economic, and social aspects of STEM education and careers. In addition to awarding nearly $12 million and counting in academic scholarships, AISES offers internships, professional development and career resources, national and regional conferences, leadership development summits, and other STEM-focused programming.

Elevating Observers of the Night Sky is a digital history project at the Wolbach Library which aims to connect people with resources to help them understand and appreciate different astronomical cultures, as well as meaningfully engage in conversations about how colonialism and racism have been, and continue to be, facets of astronomical pursuits.

“This website seeks to put together all the known information about Indigenous Mathematicians. We recognize that Native People have been doing mathematics (and hence have been mathematicians) for millennia. However here, we use “mathematician” to mean someone formally trained in mathematics in the Western academic system and/or someone who practices mathematics in their profession. Thus we may potentially include those with non-terminal mathematics degrees. The overarching goal of this website is to build community both with those living in the present and those in the past. Learning about others who have walked the same roads as we have will help us to find firmer footing on our own paths and, most importantly, to help those seeking to follow in our footsteps.”

Designed by Annette S. Lee (2007), the Native Skywatchers initiative seeks to remember and revitalize indigenous star and earth knowledge. The overarching goal of Native Skywatchers is to communicate the knowledge that indigenous people traditionally practiced a sustainable way of living and sustainable engineering through a living and participatory relationship with the above and below, sky and earth.