About
We are a group committed towards cultural, academic, and secular modes of dialogue to address past, present, and futures of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) of the Indigenous, First Nations, and Native Peoples of America. Our present backgrounds include perspectives from California, South West USA, North West Mexico, Mid-Western USA, and South-Central Mexico. However, we welcome Tribal perspectives of empiricism and traditional knowledge from the entire world. Our goal is to expand the borders of STEM from the universities and administrations from Europe, Asia, and Africa to include the voices, knowledge, and work of traditionally underrepresented communities, so that we may empower youth from Tribal and Indigenous backgrounds to pursue studies and careers in STEM to work towards the global missions of energy and food sustainability, evolving information networks, probes into the depths of space, fundamental questioning of the building blocks of the universe, and so many other goals that can only be accomplished via systematic questioning and experimentation.
We are also inclusive of many fields and disciplines that are often neglected in the sciences, such as arts, humanities, law, policy, and business. A catalyst may take the shape of a dynamic enzyme, platinum in a catalytic converter, the introduction of the printing press in China and Germany, a charismatic persona to rally a social cause, the seed that grows into the mightiest tree, and the softest flower.