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March 4, 2005
The One Earth, One Universe planning team met via teleconference to share their thoughts on the February workshop and to discuss potential next steps.  The team also drafted a statement that can be shared broadly with those who are interested in the workshop that took place in February 2005:

"A collaboration between the Native American Academy and the NASA Science Mission Directorate led to the One Earth, One Universe workshop held on February 14-18, 2005, in Santa Fe, NM. The workshop brought professional researchers and educators trained in Western science together with Native American scholars who were both traditionally and university trained. The participants began the task of developing a learning community in which divergent views about the nature and practice of science could be embraced, and expanded the inquiry to more fully encompass Indigenous knowledge systems and Native ways of knowing. In follow-up workshops the participants hope to engage in the worthwhile endeavor of exploring collaborative efforts between Western and Native science. Such collaborative efforts have the potential of contributing to the scientific endeavor, and to enhancing and broadening everyone's participation in a more inclusive scientific paradigm."