One of the reasons why, in the native ways of knowing, humans are referred to as “younger brothers of Creation” is that the Indigenous peoples understood very well that humans have much to learn from nature, which I agree with. Indeed, if we take a moment and consider some worldviews on Creation (the Skywoman story, the Genesis, and the scientific theory of evolution), we can see that all of them believe that nature was created before human beings. This clearly implies that the natural world had more time to develop and evolve than we did. Nature was therefore self-sufficient and autonomous…